I am an SLP (Speech.Language Pathologist) for our local school system and have worked in the field on and off since 1977, when I graduated with a B.S. from Auburn University. I received my M.Ed. from Columbus College (now Columbus State University) in Speech Pathology in 1983. For the major portion of my career I have worked with hearing impaired and deaf children from pre-K to 8th grades. I have also worked in a high school setting and have taught a self-contained Hearing Impaired class.
My students make even the lunacy of NCLB, the quagmire of IDEA, and the conundrum of local school politics bearable. They are delightful, insightful, energetic, loving, brutally honest, and very, very cute.
After being away from academia for 23 years, I have just started back to school to work towards a specialist degree in Instructional Technology. I hope to use what I learn to improve literacy and language learning for all students, but especially for those I have come to love the most: young hearing impaired children. |
