Speech Therapist

        Speech language pathologists work to prevent, assess, diagnose, and treat speech, language, social communication, cognitive-communication, and swallowing disorders in children and adults.Speech disorders occur when a person has difficulty producing speech sounds correctly or fluently stuttering is a form of disfluency or has problems with his or her voice or resonance.Language disorders occur when a person has trouble understanding others receptive language, or sharing thoughts, ideas, and feelings expressive language. Language disorders may be spoken or written and may involve the form phonology, morphology, syntax, content semantics, and/or use pragmatics of language in functional and socially appropriate ways.

The Six Attitudes of High Achievers

John R. Noe 

1. Make no small plans: Plan BIG

  I agree with this attitude by John R Noe. In order to be successful in life, we need to show that we want success. We can do this by planning big, and taking those actions. An example of this can be if you are planning to go to college, you need to plan BIG since freshman year. Since freshman year, you need to have good grades and be involved in school. Also throughout these 4 years you should be looking into your major and which colleges you would like to study at. If you barely start planning your senior year, you will be making small plans & will be unprepared. Planning BIG to me is planning ahead of time so that your plans will be carried out smoothly. I will apply this new attitude by not limiting myself to having small plans. When I make plans for myself, I will make sure to always plan BIG so that my goals will be reached and so that I set high standards for myself. If I set these high standards and plans fro myself, then I will be a step closer to being a higher achiever. I chose this quote by Walt Disney because it tells us how any dream is possible to accomplish, no matter how big or small. We can achieve anything we desire if we put our minds to it. 

2. Do what they Fear
   This attitude by John Noe is very moving and inspiring. What this attitude means to me is that you should do what others think you cannot do or are not capable of doing.  Too often we let fear paralyze us and make us completely still. We become stuck in this fear and we spend all of our time treading water.If you start to tread in one place for a long period of time, you will become tired and sink. This also applies to the real world because if you let fear control you then you will always be scared and will never accomplish you goals. High achievers do what they are scared of doing because they are braver than the fear that they have itself. 

3. Willing to prepare

    This attitude by John Noe means that in order to reach your goals you need to prepare yourself. No high achiever could possibly be successful over night. Masters of anything in the world understand the need to prepare to get better. High achievers understand the need for an organizational plan to prepare each and every day to execute on their vision. High achievement is a process rather than an event. Every big event is a result of little events that were carefully planned along the way. Once you reach your highest goal, you can talk and  write about it, savor it as a memory. In the daily experience of preparation, you are a step closer to being a high achiever.Attaining high goals require that they be planned out ahead of time, so there wont be any surprises at the end. Its better to be prepared than unprepared because life takes unexpected turns. For example, if I am unsure if practice starts at 2:30 or 3:00, I would be there at 2:30 so I am giving myself the benefit of the doubt. And if I am early, then I have some free time before practice to prepare ahead.

4. Willing to rick failure
    High achievers understand that with every risk comes a chance of failure. When failure happens, high achievers don’t quit. They get up and move on. If they dwell on the loss they took, they're will never be room for improvement. If you are not willing to take a risk for the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. A person who wishes success has to view failure as a healthy inevitable part of their journey. Failure is not the enemy of success. Everyone fails at least once in their lifetimes, and probably many more times. Just because you fail at something doesn't mean you lost forever. There will always be new opportunities waiting for you. When you fail at something, it prepares you to be even netter for next time.If you are going to be a high achiever you must learn to "fail" your way to high achievement. An example can be seen when I fell right off my bike. I picked it up and kept trying until I finally got the difficult task.

5. Are teachable 
    Teachable High achievers are people who seek knowledge. They spend time reading, studying, and observing and listening to those around them. Being a teachable person means either you are being taught something, or you are teaching others. High achievers like to learn things raw, no shortcuts or anything of that sort. High achievers continuously pursue new knowledge anywhere and everywhere, as well as new insights. Having a teachable mindset requires 3 things-  reading, observing, and listening. It also demands  recognition that "the higher you go the more help you need." High-achievement goals can only be attained with the help and advice of others. They will take advantage of the many mentors along their path to guide them to success. I will apply this new way to my life by reading everyday, so that I can gain new knowledge.

6. Have heart
    Things that come from our hearts include goals, visions, and sensitivity to other people. Out of this emotional connection comes the opportunity to serve others at a higher level. Having heart when you are a high achiever is important because you need some emotion at some point in order to make righteous decisions. The best rewards in life come to those with a heart to persist and the courage to stay away from the pessimistic crowd. Some people are satisfied with "just getting by" or barely reaching a goal, but a determined heart is the heart of a champion. High achievers have a purpose, and have the heart to pursue it when everyone else quits. An example of a high achiever having heart can be seen with celebrity Rihanna. She is a high achiever and has worked very hard for her success, but she also has heart. She had heart enough to be grateful for all the wealth success has brought her and used some of it to donate to charities. I will apply this new attitude to my life by writing my goals in my journal, and not giving up until I accomplish them.

UCLA

                   

The campus is in the residential area of Westwood and bordered by Bel-Air to the north, Beverly Hills to the east, and Brentwood to the west. The campus is informally divided into North Campus and South Campus, which are both on the eastern half of the university's land. North Campus is the original campus core; its buildings are more traditional in appearance and clad in imported Italian brick. North Campus is home to the arts, humanities, social sciences, law, and business programs and is centered around ficus and sycamore-lined Dickson Court, also known as the "Sunken Garden". South Campus is home to the physical sciences, life sciences, engineering, mathematical sciences, health-related fields, and the UCLA Medical Center. The campus includes sculpture gardens, fountains, museums, and a mix of architectural styles.Ackerman Union, the John Wooden Center, the Arthur Ashe Health and Wellness Center, the Student Activities Center, Kerckhoff Hall, the J.D. Morgan Center, the James West Alumni Center, and Pauley Pavilion stand at the center of the campus, bordering Wilson Plaza. The campus is bisected by Bruin Walk, a heavily traveled pathway from the residential hill to the main campus. At the intersection of Bruin Walk and Westwood Plaza is Bruin Plaza, featuring an outdoor performing arts stage and a bronze statue of the Bruin bear.

Louisiana Sate University 

Louisiana State University is ranked 135th in the national universities category and 64th among public universities by the 2017 U.S. News & World Report ranking of U.S. colleges. LSU is also ranked as the 218th best overall university in the nation by Forbes magazine and is featured in the 2011 edition of Princeton Review's Best 371 Colleges guide. Additionally, U.S. News & World Report ranked LSU as the 16th most popular university in the nation. LSU was listed for academic censure by the national Association of University Professors for its alleged mistreatment of faculty on June 16, 2012. It was also featured as one of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education's 2016 "10 Worst Colleges for Free Speech" due to its firing of a professor.