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Sports Speech

Therapist

What Does a Sports Speech

A Few Facts Therapist Do?

Median Salary In 2007 Darren Sproles of the San Di-
$74,680 a year in 2016 ego Chargers made football history by
returning a kickoff and a punt for his
Minimum fi rst two National Football League (NFL)
Educational touchdowns in the same game. While
Requirements Sproles’s work on the fi eld made him

Master’s degree famous among football fans, he was

Personal Qualities honored by sports speech therapists—
Analytical and and those with speech impediments—
when he helped celebrate National
communication skills, Stuttering Awareness Week in 2008.
critical thinking,
attention to detail, Sproles is one of many famous athletes
good listening skills, who stutter. Other stutterers include
compassion basketball greats Bill Walton, Kenyon
Martin, Bob Love, and professional
Working golfer Ken Venturi.
Conditions Sproles began stuttering in fi rst
Full-time work indoors in grade, but his speech impediment was
clinical settings not a real problem until he became a

Number of Jobs star football player at Kansas State
135,400 for all speech University. “I had to talk to the media
a lot, and once they put a camera in
therapists in 2014
my face that’s when it got bad,” he
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Job Outlook says. While in college Sproles worked
21 percent growth on his stuttering problem with speech-
before 2024 for all language pathologists (SLPs), medical
speech therapists professionals also known as speech
therapists. He overcame his stuttering

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