The official blog of the National Student Speech Language Hearing Association
“If you go to the United States, I won’t be able to take care of you when you get sick.” That’s what my mom said during my senior year in high school while filling out my college application. We were living in Venezuela at the time. My parents were used to moving around, but they weren’t used to me moving away from them. Growing Up…
“Where are you from?” “What are you?” “You don’t look Asian.” “You’re not really Asian.” “Asians don’t experience racism or struggle.” “Not to be racist, I just don’t want to get the virus.” “Just pick one nationality.” “You don’t sound like English is your second language.” As a multiracial and multiethnic Asian American, first-generation SLP graduate student, and student leader, these are just some of…
After nearly two decades as an early intervention child development specialist and former school social worker, Lynn Coyle-Handy’s changing careers and going back to college to become a school SLP—where she can shift her focus onto helping children with communication challenges; specifically, children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Quick Facts About Lynn Master’s in psychology from LaSalle University New Jersey-certified school social worker Current post-baccalaureate…
As a child, the world seemed so alien to me. For some reason, everyone else appeared to have an internal rulebook of norms that I didn’t. Eye contact felt extremely uncomfortable, but it was so important to everyone else. No one liked to play like I did. I could read words by the age of 2, but I struggled to dress myself. I walked on…