Student Involvement Fair Paper

The student involvement fair took place in front of the Student Union with dozens of organizations. Toledo’s campus has Greek Life, Engineers Without Borders, UT Lift Off, and many more supportive organizations. After walking for around the area for a while, I came across a small table with only two girls attending it. I came across the University of Toledo’s NSSLHA, the National Student Speech Language Hearing Association. The NSSLHA is an organization founded in 1972 for Speech-Language Pathology students to socialize with each other and raise money at fundraisers for charities, such as Operation Smile. The organization supports Relay for Life, food banks, and other groups that raise money or donations for those without. The organization meets once a month to discuss the fundraisers and other ways to provide necessities to those who lack them. The NSSLHA takes a great deal of commitment to promote fundraisers and volunteer. Some students gain more responsibility if they choose to head fundraisers or become a type of treasurer. For each meeting attendance needs to be taken to earn points in the organization to

I have enjoyed volunteering since I was fourteen years old. I would love to be a part of the fundraisers that the group organizes. I would be directly involved with supporting and setting up the fundraisers that help those with speech impediments such as cleft palates and hearing difficulties. The NSSLHA is a massive organization throughout the nation composed of speech pathologists, audiologists, hearing and speech personnel, and students. In a school-related career move, the group would help me with an application into graduate school in four years and provide me with connections with those who deal directly with speech pathology. In addition, the NSSLHA would help me find a job in my major as a branch of the American Speech-Language-Hearing