Although I was born in California, my family moved to Mexico when I was about a year old. Most of my childhood was spent in the beautiful rancho, Ayutita, in the outskirts of city of…
Posts tagged Nontraditional Students
Meet Lynn Coyle-Handy: Changing Careers After Two Decades
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…
Meet Marland Chang: Voice of a Veteran
As an army veteran and former opera performer, Marland Chang’s professional dreams have changed throughout the years. But each experience has led him down the path to becoming an SLP . . . and each…
Meet Jennifer Markiewicz: A Determined SLP2B
As an online graduate student, mom of two young children, and past elementary school teacher, Jennifer Markiewicz isn’t what some would call a “traditional” student. But when she realized something was missing from her teaching…