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From: Bobby Childers
Date: 10/18/01
Time: 8:51:25 AM
Remote Name: 216.234.194.129
Cristel:
Having grown up on a ranch where your nearest neighbor is 25 miles away, and the kids that you play with at home tend to be horses and cattle, you learn to self-sufficient.
Just as technology has changed over the last 30+ years, so has speech therapy (all for the better). As time progresses, new ideas and theories are developed which improve life in general.
I assume that because of my personality, my student clinicians felt that it would be a good idea to go outside the clinic setting to practice my techniques. It did help me learn how to use the techniques more effectively (even though I still have my bad days).
I probably pushed matters along because once I could see some improvment in my speech during the clincial sessions, that I wanted to try it outside and see what would happen. Part of me fought the idea tooth and nail (fear set in), but the more rational parts, said do it. It is just one more challenge to overcome.
Graduate school I'm discovering is not a fun experience. It seems that even though I have fewer classes, that I have 100 times the homework than when I was a undergraduate. I salute anyone who can survive graduate school and become an SLP. It took (takes) enormous determination, stock in Georgia Pacific (paper company) and stock in Bic to be able to write all the papers necessary.
Good luck in your studies, I know how hard it really is now.---Bobby
I remember my student SLP's talking about the various papers they had to write for their graduate classes, and I didn't really understand. Now, I do.