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Learn more about the Region 6, Regional Councilor, Carol Hassebroek:
Academic status: 1st year masters student
Major: Speech-Language Pathology
Expected date of graduation: May 2010
University: Wichita State University
Area of professional interest: Traumatic Brain Injuries
I joined NSSLHA because: I want to be actively involved and well informed about the current issue happening locally, regionally, and nationally that are having and will have an impact on my major of communication disorders and my future career as a speech-language pathologist. My hope is that my active involvement and efforts to be well informed will aid me in being of great service to my future clients, patients, and/or student.
I applied for a position on the NSSLHA Executive Council because: I have a strong desire to be actively involved in the organizations that have a major impact on the fields of audiology and speech-language pathology. I personally feel that NSSLHA is a critical component to anyone who is attending school to become a future audiologist, speech-language pathologist. As a future speech-language pathologist, I am determined to be as actively involved as possible with NSSLHA, so that the association can have a positive and helpful impact on my personal career. Inversely, I hope to have a small but important impact on improving NSSLHA for those of the organization now and in the future.
During my two-year term on the council I will be successful if: I can help encourage and get local chapters involved and/or active. This is an important issue for me because the first two years I was in NSSLHA the only purpose of our local organization was to attend the National Convention. The National Convention is extremely important and a great educational opportunity, but NSSLHA is and should be about much more than the National Convention. All local chapters should be involved in other purposes, such as community service, spreading the word about career paths that lie under the communication disorders study, creating unity by organizing social activities for their members, etc.
Another issue I am concerned about is that only a small portion of high school and college students are aware of the possibilities in the field of communication disorders. Many people I talk to have never heard of a speech-language pathologist or audiologist. I had never heard of either of these careers until my mother brought up the idea of me becoming a speech-language pathologist. I really feel that NSSLHA as a whole needs to work together to spread more information about the wide range and solid career opportunities available within the field of communications disorders.
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