The official blog of the National Student Speech Language Hearing Association
When we think of mentorship, we often think of those programs that offer individuals the opportunities to learn, grow, and form a bond with someone who is older than them and who has lived and experienced life at a more mature level. However, when I think of mentorship, I often view it as a time to connect with someone who may or may not have…
Communication is a fundamental part of life, and as future audiologists and speech-language pathologists, we’ll work with individuals who have a wide variety of speech, language, and hearing differences and disorders. The online NSSLHA chapter at the University of South Florida believes everyone has the right to communicate—no matter what that communication looks or sounds like. In our effort to promote awareness about the many…
While the rest of the country has been faced with the challenge of going virtual this year, “virtual” is nothing new for our online undergraduate program at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee Campus. As the historian of our NSSLHA chapter, I’ve implemented strategies on our social media platforms to increase engagement within our organization. Of the many wonderful things social media can do for…
2020 . . . what a year it’s been—transformative (at the least) and undoubtedly life-changing. Who would have imagined four simple numbers could hold such weight? Yet here we stand—braving 2021 with a newfound strength we were unfamiliar with at this time last year. Graduations, birthdays, celebrations—both big and small—were redefined, postponed, and reinvented. Little did we know that in the midst of a hard…
