- Title
- Current and prospective speech-language pathology students' reports of exposure to speech-language pathology
- Creator
- Byrne, Nicole
- Relation
- International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology Vol. 10, Issue 5, p. 297-304
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17549500802147018
- Publisher
- Informa Healthcare
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2008
- Description
- This paper presents findings of an investigation into the amount of exposure to the speech-language pathology profession that is reported by current and prospective speech-language pathology students. This study investigated both therapeutic and social exposures to speech-language pathology (SLP) as both were considered to play a role in providing information about the profession (e.g., work settings, professional demographics and caseloads). The results showed that the greater majority of both the current and prospective speech-language pathology students had some type of exposure to speech-language pathology either prior to entering or prior to considering entering the speech-language pathology program. Furthermore, both the current and prospective speech-language pathology students reported being influenced by their prior exposure the speech-language pathology profession. Finally, the results showed that parents played a large role in career choice for the current and prospective students, and this may have also included influence through parents’ own exposure to speech-language pathology through work settings.
- Subject
- speech-language pathology; career choice; therapy exposure; workforce planning
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/43177
- Identifier
- uon:5304
- Identifier
- ISSN:1754-9507
- Language
- eng
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