Become a speech therapist

Think this might be just the thing for me

I would love to become a speech therapist.
I am currently completing General Ed classes at a Community College. I am determined to follow the path to this noble profession, as it suits my personality and capabilities.

Please let me know what is needed. Thanks! :)

Have applied for the university now. The program require good grades, mine are, but my chances of getting in is still just 50/50. Don’t like those odds.

I had just graduated from upper secondary school and I needed a job. So I decided to get some experience within health care. I managed to get a job very quickly at an elderly centre for people suffering from alzheimer’s and dementia.

It was tough in the beginning, but now I never want to work with anything else than health care. You do something good ever day and working with people is extremely good for your own development. I feel like a completely different person just after this few weeks, a better person.

I do believe that I have found a mission in my life. I also like to believe that I am naturally talented in this area. Some of my work colleagues thought that I had worked with this for several years because of my good treatment. But what chocked me the most was when the “office’s” most critical person said that I was “insanely skilful”. I might not be that bad after all…

-Language fascinates me – It has always been one of my favourite subjects in school. The feeling of understanding in as many ways as possible is amazing. Being a speech therapist is about the ability of getting yourself understood as good as possible.

-Music is my life and I see the voice as just another instrument to create beautiful sounds, yes, every voice is beautiful and unique. A speech therapist is an expert of that instrument.

-I want to help people, simply change someone’s life for the better every day. I have always felt myself drawn to work at a hospital in some way.

-It is the missing piece in my life. I have always been an easy learner. I have learnt to play music, do paintings, do sports, got very good grades in school but I have always been a terribly bad speaker. I have no power in my voice but it is mostly because I have been so extremely shy in my past. I guess that becoming a speech therapist would be a sort of therapy as well. If I make it I get to help others that also has communication problems and perhaps form time to time be able to say – I know how you feel without lying.

I’m done with school, and will start full time work July 1st.

Hi… I am 32 and I have decided after being out of the work force for the last 5 years (became a mommie) that I want to start a new career. I have an associates in business admin. and I would like to go t school again to become a speech therpist or any field involving early intervention for children with disabilities. I obviously don’t have years and years to go to school. Anyone have any suggestions or advice on which avenue I should go.

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Started my new placement today in a paediatric clinic. I feel as though I’m now more able to connect the theory to the client. This goal (although still a long way away from being accomplished) is something I can now visualise much more easily.

I’m in second year of my degree course.