“In February of this year, I found myself at TAP’s door, having retired from speech pathology at the UNC Hospital Rehabilitation Center the previous May. I had come to speech therapy later in life than most, starting graduate school with children in college and a husband not too far away from retirement himself. I used to tell my clients, “I may look like a seasoned speech pathologist, but I’m really just seasoned.” I may have been short on decades of professional experience, but had accumulated years of life experience…