Volume 15, Number 2, Summer 2020

“I Can’t Breathe”: A Doctoral Student Perspective to COVID-19

AUTHOR:

• Lauren R. Prather, M.S., CCC-SLP, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA

ABSTRACT

Motivation and mental health can be worsened when doctoral students try to maintain productivity and meet graduation requirements during a deadly pandemic. This perspective discusses the impact of COVID-19 on motivation to complete educational responsibilities within in a doctoral program. “I Can’t Breathe” is used as a metaphor to illustrate the feelings of the added pressures and demands that COVID-19 placed on educational expectations.

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