Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
>> I was working with a girl --
a little girl, who has autism, who's autistic.
And we were working on feeding skills
and eating a variety and type of food.
And when I went to go to our session on Monday,
her mother pulled me aside and said, "I just wanted to tell you
that Saturday I got to eat breakfast with my daughter,
and it was really special."
She got to sit down and just share a bagel with her daughter,
and that was because of all the work that we had done
on getting her to tolerate all different types of foods,
and just -- you know, it was a really important interaction
for the mom.
It's hard work being a speech pathologist.
You -- you know, you work with a lot of different people,
and 45 minutes one-on-one sometimes
with a child is a long time, and you're tired
at the end of the day.
So when an incident like that happens,
where a mom just really, you know, thanks you so much
like that, it's better than -- I mean, it's nice to get paid,
but it's better than getting paid.
It makes the -- it makes your day worth it.