The official blog of the National Student Speech Language Hearing Association
Our lives have turned upside down in ways that we never could have imagined. Life was so different just four months ago . . . Wearing a mask in public would have been perceived as odd rather than the norm. Your home would have never been a therapy room for clients. Trips wouldn’t have been cancelled because of a global pandemic. A national uprising through…
During the past 2 weeks, we’ve invited CSD students to fill out our Join NSSLHA: Stop the Silence engagement form to continue conversations about racial inequalities within the CSD disciplines. This led to our first “Raw Conversation” Zoom session for students who filled out the form. The “Raw Conversations: Stop the Silence Listening Session,” provided an intimate and safe space for students to hear more…
While we recognize and condemn the multifaceted aspects of systemic racism and oppression in this country, we must also address the injustices many of our Black NSSLHA students face within their own CSD programs. Last week, we opened our Instagram account to our NSSLHA students who are Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) to amplify their voices. We asked, “What have you experienced as…
This past January, my first semester of in-house clinical practicum as a graduate student started. It was nerve-wracking! After all these years of studying speech-language pathology, it was finally time to put my knowledge to the ultimate test. Feeling nervous and overwhelmed, I began to question myself. How would I ever be able to conduct therapy—face-to-face—with a real, living, breathing person?! I recall my first…