How can I continue to forge my professional and academic development? How might I inquire (research) into my learning in an ongoing manner? How might my professional and academic development and practice be informed by my ongoing research? How do I respond to opportunities for inquiry (research)? How do I meet my own learning needs?

I believe that learning is very important throughout life, no matter whether you are in school or not. When I become a speech-language pathologist, I must be willing to learn new things if I want to be good at my profession. I think I will be able to accomplish that by going to a variety of seminars and meetings, reading articles, searching the internet and not being afraid to ask other speech-language pathologists questions and what their thoughts are. There is always something to learn, no matter how smart you think you are. I will need to always be open to new ideas and information.

I realize that everything I learn in school is not the only useful information that may be beneficial to me. Science changes and studies are being done everyday that may lead to changes in how I can, not only better my therapy with clients, help me to be a better SLP and person.

I think that I meet my own learning needs by knowing what I have to do in order to learn. When I am trying to learn new material, it is very important that I am not distracted. When I am doing homework or reading I have to be in my room or in the library, no television or radio; I need to have a quiet atmosphere. Therefore, when I know I need to get something done, I set aside time for me where there are very few distractions, so that I can concentrate and learn as much as possible.