-: Just seeing the progress that
the children make is very rewarding,
and knowing that I've helped prepare them
for a successful academic career in helping
with their speech and language needs is just very rewarding.
Sometimes I hear from parents or teachers,
or I'll see the kids out in the community,
and then I get updates on how they're doing.
And it's usually always positive,
but not always, I would like to,
I wish that I could find out how
they're all doing, but, yeah.
I would say a challenge with the population that I work with
is finding ways to motivate the students,
because I find that they really need to be motivated
in order to be interested in what you're doing,
and make progress, and so it can be interesting
to try to find what uniquely motivates each student.
But, once you do, then therapy can just take off.
If the students were older in elementary school,
you might be able to follow more of a schedule
throughout their therapy session, but this is really,
if they see something on a wall, and they're very interested
in that, then I kind of shift to that picture
and work on their goals by talking about what we see,
and the colors and different things, so it's constantly,
the job constantly keeps me on my toes, but it's also,
it keeps it exciting and fun, because you never know
what each session will bring, but I always
find a way to target their goals, so.