The 2 Absolute Best Student Planners for College & Grad School. When I was in high school, I always got the basic planner the school handed out every year.
It was very simple, and was only ever used for keeping track of assignments and tests. And, honestly, I barely actually used it. I don’t know how I kept things straight in my head, just remembering when assignments were due and studying for an exam only when my teacher reminded the class we had one coming up. Now thinking about how I managed all that throughout those 4 years stresses me out! How was this Type A gal that laid back?! BUT, when I got to college I realized the importance of weekly planners. 5 classes with very different schedules of assignments due either online or in person, presentations, quizzes, and exams, plus an ever-changing work schedule… I would have drowned in my disorganization within the first week without my planner!
So, I got down to it. Y’all. PSSSST! For the past two years, I’ve been partial to this black & white striped pattern. Goals & Intentions Reality Check Follow: How To Succeed in Your Speech Pathology Program. I’m going to deviate from my normal post format today to speak to a part of my audience that until recently I didn’t know was there: students in a speech pathology program.
I have received numerous emails lately from speech pathology program students who are wanting advice on how to do the best that they possibly can to succeed in undergraduate or graduate school. Well today, it’s all about you, Students! It wasn’t that long ago that I was a student and I feel you pain, so here is my best advice on how to succeed in your speech pathology program. 1. Do Observations The field of speech-language pathology is incredibly vast and covers a wide array of areas. 2.
Now you can’t exactly just go out and do some speech therapy before you’re licensed to get more experience but you can and should get experience working with the populations you like in other ways. 3. Ok, story time: I had a professor in college who was notorious for being super critical of written work. 4. 5. 6. Planning Your Education in Communication Sciences and Disorders. Careers in communication sciences and disorders (CSD) can be pursued as an audiologist; speech-language pathologist; and speech, language, and hearing scientist.
Learn about the educational pathway that leads toward careers as clinicians and faculty-researchers. Overview. What is SLP Grad School Like? And other FAQs - When I first started speech therapy schooling process, I had so many questions about the speech therapist’s education and found so few answers.
There was virtually no information on the web. It felt like everyone was keeping it all to themselves. So today, I will attempt to answer some of your most pressing questions and reveal what SLP grad school is really like. Side note: You can read about the entire overview process in my previous post about how to become a speech pathologist here. How to Get into Speech Pathology School. Advice for your First Year of Speech-Language Pathology Graduate School. Note: This post is for my fellow or future SLP graduate students!
Non-SLP following - you're more than welcome to read on, but if you're not interested, come back later in the week for more travel/personal bits :) I can't believe my first year of speech-language pathology grad school has already come and gone. I start my second (and final!) Year in just a couple of weeks, so I wanted to share a few bits of advice I've gathered from my experience as a first year speech-language pathology student for anyone who's about to start their program this month, or anyone applying in the future! How to Prepare for SLP Graduate School — Coffee & Speech. My 06 Files folder contains my background checks, student loan paperwork, transcripts, & additional paperwork.
Make sure you know where everything is! My 00 SLP Resources folder, as you can see, contains a lot of materials that I have acquired including goal writing resources, evaluation report writing resources, treatment activities, textbook PDFs/eBooks, milestones & norms that I reference frequently, and a compiled folder of all of my lectures & EBP articles. 5. How I Got in to Graduate School. We are so excited to have Taylor Lorengo from Arizona State University as a guest blogger today!
Taylor is a second-year graduate student in the Communication Disorders MS program at ASU (Sarah and my alma mater!) And is also a member of our SLP Toolkit team! She is excited to share her tips for getting into the graduate program of your choice! It’s that time of year – and no, I’m not talking about holidays. It’s application season for graduate school! The competitive nature in the field of communication disorders is truly a blessing and a curse. To start, I’ll give you a little background on my personal journey to grad school and how the process worked for me. I took the GRE in October of my senior year of college. Once the GRE was out of the way, the next step was securing letters of recommendation. The final step was completing the actual applications for each school. The next few months were a waiting game that ended when I was accepted to Arizona State University’s program. 1. 2.