Bad at Science?

[Julie_Marie]

I am very interested in the field of speech pathology. I currently work in a special education classroom where I see firsthand what speech pathologists do on a regular basis, and I know I would absolutely love a career as speech pathologist in an elementary school. Additionally, the careers I've been seeing at hospitals and locations other than schools look like jobs I would enjoy as well. However, I am not the best at science-related courses, and this concerns me since there are quite a few prerequisites required for admission and for pre-SLP programs. Once I get it, I get it, but it does take me quite some time to get it, as opposed to more liberal-art courses. Should I eliminate such a career out of my choices? I know this program is competitive to begin with..

[jmk]

I would not consider myself to be great at science either, but have really enjoyed my anatomy and neurology courses. Yes- I have to put more time and effort into studying and memorizing for those courses. Meanwhile, if you put the effort in, you should have no problem. There are no equations to memorize or apply. Neurology/neurolinguistics definitely seemed more "science-y" to me than anatomy, but you are barely scraping the surface of harder science topics. Just make sure you truly have enough time to study for the class, especially if you have been out of the school grind for awhile. 

[CBG321]

You will be fine as far as science goes.  I always struggled with my lower division science courses and I agree that Neurology was not fun and I was pretty lost, however it is one class and if you don't want to focus in that area you will be okay.  Anatomy went back and forth for me I ended up liking it and doing well but it took me a few weeks to learn how to study for that class.  The pros definitely outweigh the cons!  Don't let a fear of hard science scare you away   

[Crimson Wife]

If you're talking about the ASHA bio and chem/physics requirements, don't worry about them. You don't need to take courses intended for STEM/pre-med majors. You don't even have to take them at a 4 year school- community college courses are fine. Lots of my classmates in the Utah State 2nd bachelor's are taking a "conceptual chemistry" course that is supposed to be pretty easy.

If you're talking about A&P of Speech & Hearing (that may be a combo course or two separate ones) and Speech & Hearing Science (again that might be 1 or 2 courses), then those aren't easy. But I found the 2 A&P courses at USU to be more tedious than truly difficult. Lots and lots of memorizing the names of bones, cartilages, muscles, etc. and being able to label them on a diagram. Acoustics is part of the USU A&P of Hearing course and was probably the hardest unit of that since I never took physics in high school or college. Speech Science I haven't taken yet but I've heard it is one of the most difficult in the 2nd bachelor's degree.

ETA: I don't have to take neuro since my first degree was in psychology and I took a bunch of neuroscience classes as part of that.

Edited April 13, 2016 by Crimson Wife
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