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I would like to express my gratitude to your staff and to Joan C. Kosta for the article, “An SLP in Malaysia.”
Starting a career here in a first-world country was a challenge for me since I found myself “lost” in the middle of a growing demand for licensed speech-language pathologists here. The academic requirements here are different from my country, since in the Philippines, one can practice with a bachelor’s degree alone.
This made me thankful to meet Dr. Linda Carozza, who hired me as a volunteer at Marymount College of Manhattan. She took time to know me as a person and a student with full potential despite our cultural differences.
I can very much relate to Prof. Kosta’s article, which highlighted interesting facts about an Asian country like mine and raised the importance of “mentorship and cultural immersion.” She succeeded in speaking for millions of other Asian students like me who would like to pursue further studies and train to be a successful SLP like her.
Her article spoke strongly about reaching out to other parts of the world and that there is so much to discover and learn about the multiple meanings of “communication.”
She further called into action the need to protect and nurture, not only the disabled population we care about, but also the struggling students who would like to make a difference in this world which adds further meaning and role to our profession as speech-language pathologists.
Therese Marie Y. Abesamis
Jersey City, NJ
Therese.Abesamis@gmail.com
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