January 17th, 2022
During the last meeting with my mentor Ariel, I got to sit in and watch her help a little girl just under the age of three. She was super sweet and needed help forming words and phrases. Additionally, Ariel and I discussed more on my final project and we started planning out what we want the parents to use for at-home learning, and speech-pathologists as well. I started working on some of it this weekend, and I'm very pleased with how our design planning is going. As I continue having meetings, like the one I have coming up this week, I hope to find more innovative ways to make learning easy and efficient whether the child is at home or working with a speech-pathologist. It's important that for a quick recovery and effective speech process, the child is constantly doing homework consistently and not just working with their pathologist once or twice a week. It's a process people have to be patient on, but with hard work, it's worth it. I additionally want to look into possible internships in the future, so by the time I enter college I can start working during the summers I come home.