As directors of speech-language pathology assistant programs, we are extremely invested in the success of speech-language pathology assistants. While we would like assistants to unobstructedly emerge into our profession, we realize that since we are embarking in succession new territory, the transition will be bumpy However, it looks that often we encounter adversarial conditions that make it appear as if the emergence of assistants is a war that be in want ofs a victor. It should be frequent knowledge that we are forward the same team.
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