By Faiza Abdul Wahab
Deciding on a career is inevitable and integral to every teenager’s future. Our well-wishers advise us to choose a particular profession or to run away from a particular one. There is the father, who says, “Job well-paid honi chahiyay”.
Then mother says, “Job timings flexible honay chahiyein”. The brother has his own little question, “Job aasani se mil jaey gi?” And then there is the grandmother all worked up about your marital prospects, who says, “Bas education jaldi khatam hojaey, shaadi karni hai!”
Well, isn’t there a profession that gives you the best of everything? Of course there is. Speech Language Therapy, also known as Speech Language Pathology is a four-year degree programme bound to give you the most satisfying and well-paid professional life, in the least amount of time.
Friday, May 4, 2012
Speech language therapy in Pakistan
By Amina Siddiqui
Communication is obligatory to the human experience. Since early civilization, man has devised endless means for sharing information, thoughts, ideas, feelings, needs, etc., — non-verbally through gestures, signs, actions, cave drawings, the beating of drums, and verbally through a common set of words and sentences leading to the evolution of umpteen languages on earth.
Communication skills improved over time, from graphic exchanges of pictures to the creation of the alphabet, leading to the emergence of reading and writing skills. Today we communicate through the electronic media, using sophisticated instruments, such as fax and telex machines, computers, television, mobile phones, the Global Positioning System (GPS) installed on seaborne vessels, and much more. Thus the acquisition of speech and language is considered a dynamic skill innate to the human species. However, it is easily influenced by environmental, social, cultural, parental, and biological parameters.
The sad truth we faced in Pakistan until a few years ago was the absence of nationally-qualified professionals in the field of Speech Language Pathology to work with children and adults with communicative impediments and swallowing disorders.
Communication is obligatory to the human experience. Since early civilization, man has devised endless means for sharing information, thoughts, ideas, feelings, needs, etc., — non-verbally through gestures, signs, actions, cave drawings, the beating of drums, and verbally through a common set of words and sentences leading to the evolution of umpteen languages on earth.
Communication skills improved over time, from graphic exchanges of pictures to the creation of the alphabet, leading to the emergence of reading and writing skills. Today we communicate through the electronic media, using sophisticated instruments, such as fax and telex machines, computers, television, mobile phones, the Global Positioning System (GPS) installed on seaborne vessels, and much more. Thus the acquisition of speech and language is considered a dynamic skill innate to the human species. However, it is easily influenced by environmental, social, cultural, parental, and biological parameters.
The sad truth we faced in Pakistan until a few years ago was the absence of nationally-qualified professionals in the field of Speech Language Pathology to work with children and adults with communicative impediments and swallowing disorders.
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