Saturday, April 26, 2014

Rehab or Education Professional: Considering New Career Choices?

At this time of year, many stressed-out professionals in speech-language pathology, occupational therapy, physical therapy and education (especially special education) are considering changing careers. With few or no salary raises and no career ladders, talented professionals often feel that they have been asked to do too much too fast for too many for too little pay for too long. The problem is that they don't know what options are out there for them, if they don't want to return to school first.

Alternative Career Options for Speech-Language Pathologists is a book that offers choices - and possibilities.
Each chapter details the story of 1 speech-language pathologist (or team of 2), who went from having a traditional career to combining speech skills with those of a different field. Extensive additional schooling was not needed, except for 1 option. Each person talks candidly about the positives and negatives of his/her new career choice, as well as how he or she made the transition. Eighteen individuals/teams are covered, with other options being mentioned briefly.

Examples of the new fields include developing and training others in related equipment, teaching speech-language pathologists specialized new skills, publishing, sales of related equipment,  visual communications consultant, and many more! These examples are intended to help spark ideas in the minds of the readers.

These options would be suitable for many types of rehabilitation and education professionals.

The book also includes a career self-assessment questionnaire, so readers can thoughtfully and systematically consider their own possible choices.

The softcover book  Alternative Career Options for Speech/Language Pathologists is available here . Get more information on it by seeing this video. There are options for you; start exploring them today!

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