 | Gentry White is the owner and lead therapist for Southeast Kansas Speech Pathology Services in Pittsburg Kansas. She received her Bachelor of Science in Education from the University of Nebraska at Kearney in 1998 and her Master of Arts in Audiology and Speech Sciences degree from Michigan State University in 2001. She has been practicing Speech-Language Pathology in southeast Kansas since moving to Pittsburg in 2001. Gentry resides in the Pittsburg area with her husband and children. She can be contacted through her website www.sekspeech.com or her office phone at 620-232-2990. |
Health & Rehabilitation
2012-11-19 11:24:40
Is it too late for an adult to try speech pathology?
A- Great question. I would consider a referral for the following reasons; if you feel that your speech is impeding your skills as a professional within your chosen career, your speech deficit is negatively impacting your social life or if you have recently noticed a change in your speech (i.e. rate, word finding issues, intelligibility). I would then consider speaking with a Speech Pathologist about your specific communication needs. Whether your speech deficit is a specific phoneme sound (ex. /s/ or a /r/ misarticulation) or if it is a fluency issue (ex. fluctuating rate of speech), it is never too late to determine a compensatory strategy for speech production. The amazing part of the human race is that each and every one of us is different and speech makes up who we are; voicing, oral structure, dialect and language can characterize each and every one of us in a unique way.
