By Kerry Magro, Self-Advocate, National Speaker, and Author
Dear Speech Language Pathologist: I don’t know how you got your start. What your role was in helping those with special needs. Some of you have helped pave the way to diagnose while others who are reading this may have assessed and helped those with a wide range of speech and language related challenges. You may work in a school, business, rehabilitation center, hospital, private clinic – you name it. You often spend countless hours of your time both giving all you can to see your students and patients succeed, and for that I wanted to say thank you.
Each day I see you help students swallow, pronounce different words, use text to speech software and speak without stuttering. You are also there with encouragement when you see them reach a new goal in their development. You provide encouragement to them when they are struggling which is just as important. And you do that because you care. You care because you have a passion for our loved ones. It’s a passion I’ve seen firsthand as someone who was diagnosed with autism at an early age.
MAY
