Volunteer Experience to SLP schools

[billradzin]

I am looking at my local United Way website for volunteer opportunities and it looks as though there are some available to help read to 3rd graders and some available to help tutor elementary students. They require 1-3 hours per week of volunteering for a 3-9 month agreement. I'm wondering which of the opportunities (reading or tutoring) might be more beneficial in my application to SLP programs and I was wondering if I do something like this for the next few years would that be an adequate amount of volunteer hours.

[lzs]

Not an expert in this field, but I strongly suspect tutoring. It's more similar to what speech-language pathologists do, and is more difficult. Anyone with at least a grade-school reading level can read to kids, and you can read on autopilot, but tutoring isn't something you can phone in, or at least not as easily. I used to tutor elementary school kids, for what it's worth, and it was hard and I sucked at it.

[billradzin]

Thanks for your thoughts, I didn't really consider how tutoring is a more difficult task and I have to agree with your thoughts.