I love what I do and have always found the profession of a speech and language pathologist to be a fabulous one! I however, was surprised to find out so did some other famous people.
Jay Leno: Comedian, TV host, actor: BA in speech pathology from Emerson, Massachusetts
Elizabeth Warren: US Senator, University of Houston BS Speech Pathology and Audiology
Justin Snow: NFL long snapper, Baylor, Bachelors and Masters in Speech and Language pathology
Alma Powell: wife of Colin Powell, Audiologist, Emerson College, Fisk University
Joanne Carole Schieble: birth mother of Steve Jobs, Speech language pathologist
Elizabeth Jane “Betty” DeGeneres, speech language pathologist retired. Louisana State University
Sandra Schumer, mother of comedianne Amy Schumer, speech language pathologist
Patricia Mae Hewitt, mother of Jennifer Love Hewitt, speech language pathologist
Theresa Ann Ferguson, mother of Fergie, speech language pathologist
A Speech and language pathologist is specialist with a role to assess, diagnose, treat and help prevent speech, language, cognitive-communication, voice, swallowing, fluency and other related disorders. Speech and language pathologists have many job responsibilities besides working with students or patients on communication disorders. Even though it is very obvious I find it so interesting the two major tools that a speech and language pathologist needs to use when working with a student or a patient is their listening and observation skills, because they are looking for things that the average person might not recognize as a communication disorder or deregulation. Speech and language pathologists need to listen and observe to see where they need to work with their students or patients to help them with their communication needs. The most surprising role of a speech and language pathologist is their role as a teacher. Speech and language pathologist treat communication disorders but they also help students learn new vocabulary to create an expanding word bank.