I had a great time in Iowa City last weekend for a fun reunion. A lovely young woman gave my friend and me a tour of the campus, including a walk across the Iowa River to the Wendell Johnson Speech and Hearing Clinic. I have lots of happy memories of riding my bike across the river to the Clinic. Of course, other people were interested in seeing Nile Kinnick Stadium! Maybe the speech clinic isn’t a big tourist draw??? I didn’t even think to take a picture of the clinic, but this is a picture of ice breaking up on the river. It made a lovely collage.
I had never heard of “word finding” or “word retrieval” in graduate school. That’s another thing special about SLPs: they are always learning new things. I was so very encouraged to hear the enthusiasm in the voice of an undergraduate: the field of speech-language pathology is in good hands for the future!