How ironic Mrs. McComas- I too wanted to become a medical technologist! I even went so far as to go to a vocational-technical school my junior and senior years of high school for that. I had to find something to do for the second half of the day (since I needed nothing else to graduate) at school. I didn't know that I really wanted to do that for sure, but that is what I decided once I had spent some time with the class. I had planned on getting an associates degree and then going on to college to finish up. Anyway to make it a short story I soon found out I didn't like it. Once I was actually put to work (Logan general hospital) for clinicals. I thought it was boring. I switched my major quickly to (get this....) criminal justice. I wanted to be a PI!!! (LOL) Oh gosh stop me I am still laughing!
Anyway, after many twists and turns of life, I ended up in a small rural town in Boone county. I enrolled my daughter in pre-school at the elementary school. Soon I was room mom and loving every minute of it. One child in particular kept my attention. Sadly, not many others paid him any attention. The reason none of the kids would play with him or interact in any way was because they couldn't understand a thing he said. He was barely intelligible. Every word came out like a grunt (or something like that). I talked to the teacher about him and she said that the school did have an SLP that visited on Thursdays. Unfortunately he was't enrolled. His mother failed time and time again to sign the consent form. He was disruptive continually in the class, and refused many activities. I know that his speech impairment was the cause, because he was very smart . He was a poor helpless child that I needed and wanted so badly to help. That is how I knew I wanted to become a Speech Pathologist.
Michelle