Welcome fellow bloggers to probably the best blog that the Western hemisphere has ever seen! Hello. My name is Kira Lingman and my BIS concentrations are in Mass Communications and Speech and Hearing. Throughout my scholastic career, I enjoyed classes pertaining to the mass media, so naturally I thought I was going to persue a degree or career in that feild. It wasn't until I started taking classes in American Sign Language that I took an interest in speech, hearing, communication, and language disorders. Everything ended up working out because ASU gave me the opportunity to explore both feilds and integrate the knowlege from both disciplines without sacrificing one of my interests. I'm in my last semester currently and I hope to persue a carreer in Speech Language Pathology but I know the insight about mass communications will be benificial when using the media as an outlet to promote my career in the future.
My applied study is at a nonprofit organization called Arizona Autism United (AZA United) that provides habilitation and respite services for children/teens with autism. My main responsibility at AZA United at this time is developing the Community Rescourse Library that consists of important books, articles, and brochures from other similar organizations in Arizona. This definitely relates to my two concentrations because I have been netorking to obtain brochures and such (mass communications), and autism is a communication and language learning disorder (speech and hearing science). This project really requires the integration of both disciplines because this library is intended for the masses who want to educate themselves on the various autism spectrum disorders. As of right now, I still do not know exactly what I want to do once I graduate because I know I will be moving back to California, but this internship is putting me in the right direction to carreer ideas and posibilities.
