Almost 12 years ago, I became a certified Speech-Language Pathologist. My first job out of graduate school was working in pediatrics in a hospital setting. On the very first day of my career, I learned that I would be taking over a caseload made up almost entirely of children who were deaf and hard of hearing. On the outside, I remained cool and level headed. Inside, I was extremely nervous and frightened, as this was a population I had never worked with before. Now, I am bey