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I haven't been an SLPA for a very long time, but I do love what I do! I received my BS in Communication Disorders from the Speech & Hearing Science Program at the University of Washington in 2017. I started shadowing at Circle Creek Therapy last fall and accepted their offer for an SLPA soon after! There are a lot of differences between being an SLP (speech language pathologist/therapist) and a SLPA (speech language pathologist assistant) that you might not even know about! S

Audrey: I always look forward to people asking what I do for work, because most people don’t know what it is Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) actually do. I often receive confused looks or questions such as, “Ohhhhh. . . So what does that mean?” or, “Oh, so you help kids who have lisps!” I then smile and launch into my elevator speech, which I adjust depending on the number of floors the person is willing to ride in the conversational elevator with me. The fact is, we do S

I've had this sign hanging on my wall for years. Whenever I see it, my mind always goes towards my craziest ideas. Ideas like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute, deep sea diving with sharks without an oxygen tank, or flying a helicopter across the country with a blindfold on. After I exhaust myself with imagining my unrealistic ideas, I begin to think about my real ones. In my future, I want to travel the world, marry the love of my life, have or adopt children, a