Charles Coward: Private Practice SLP

Charles Coward, Manager, Connections Therapy, discusses his love for speech-language pathology and how his work with young children impacts their growth and communication development.

TRANSCRIPT

Charles Coward:
"I chose to work with young children because throughout my career I've worked with birth through elderly. But it's the younger population--the infants and toddlers--where I get more joy, because it's the developmental stages and I'm making an impact that will last throughout their lives. I'm Charles Coward, a speech-language pathologist and manager of Connections Therapy Center. I'm a speech-language pathologist because I love working with children. I love seeing children grow and change. And speech-language pathology is very important because everyone has a right or a need to communicate.

Donovan is a wonderful little boy with a bubby personality, and inside of him there is the ability to communicate more consistently and I'm just trying to find out which door I have to unlock in order to open so that he can communicate effectively and efficiently every day. In Donovan's session today, since he's a non-verbal child, we're working on getting him to consistently use the sign for please and teaching him the sign for apple.

[Coward speaking to patient, "Very good now let's go for apple. Good."]

To see where he came from and what he's doing now and what he has the potential to do is just remarkable. In the future, I can see myself working in theater or film, teaching actors ways to improve their articulation. And with more training I can also be a dialect coach to teach the dialects for character development."

[amyvaughn]

HI Charles! I was so excited to see you pop up on my screen. I hope you've pursued your dream to work with professional actors. Back in our Case days, I knew you'd head that direction eventually! -Amy (Hall) Vaughn