Students take many paths to reach their goal. Read the profiles below to learn what motivated these students to want to become audiologists and speech-language pathologists. Those profiled share what guided them to the career of audiology or speech-language pathology and what ignited their passion for the profession. The profiles capture the variety of educational paths students take in communication sciences and disorders.
Brenda Keller Abraham
MS, CCC-SLP
PRN in Inpatient Rehab and LTAC Clinician
MS, May 2005, University of Tennessee–Knoxville
Ahmad B. Alexander
2nd Year AuD Student
Louisiana Tech University
BS, May 2006, Nicholls State University
Erica Hensley
1st Year SLP Master's Student
Ball State University
BA, May 2007, Indiana University
Ciera Hiipakka
Undergraduate Student
University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point
Speech-Language Pathology Major
Jonathan Love
MS, CCC-SLP
Innovative Communication Therapy (ICT)
MS, May 2004, University of Northern Iowa
Jairus Joaquin Matthews
MA, CCC-SLP
EBS Healthcare
MA, August 2006, Miami University
Rimma Shekhtman
1st Year SLP Master's Student
New York University
BS, May 2007, CUNY–Brooklyn College
Mandy Velasquez
2nd Year AuD Student
The University of Tennessee–Knoxville
BS, May 2006, Texas Christian University