Need a gift for a speech-language pathologist, OT, PT or special educator?

Are you planning on buying a gift for someone in the helping professions, such as a speech-language pathologist, occupational therapist, physical therapist or a special educator? Do you know someone in those fields who wants a second job or is planning to retire soon?

Helping professionals in those and other fields often have many talents that can be transferred into another career field, or into a career that is related to what they have done before. Many of them combine two career fields, such as therapy and training, or therapy and graphic arts.

Alternative Career Options for Speech-Language Pathologists is a book that discusses the career paths of 18 professionals. It covers each person's (or team's) traditional career, how the person changed to a new field, what the person does now, and the advantages and disadvantages of making such a change.

The book includes a career self-assessment questionnaire to help the reader consider his or her possibilities.

In a special offer, if the book is purchased by December 15, 2014, and the reader completes and e-mails back the questionnaire by December 30, 2014, the author will offer personalized suggestions to the reader at no extra charge! (This is a $50 value!)

Find out more about this extraordinary book, Alternative Career Options for Speech-Language Pathologists, and get your copy now!

Speech-Language Pathologist - Ready for Something Different?

It's that time of year, when many speech-language pathologists (SLP)s are so tired of massive amounts of paperwork (think: IEPs and insurance billing) and productivity standards! The question appears: what else can I do? (As more than one such burnt-out SLP told me, "If I do another ___ again, it will be too soon!")

After being asked this question by a total stranger on the telephone, I became intrigued, and spent a lot of time researching options. It turns out that there are many choices.

The first question is what intrigues a given SLP: favorite aspects of the field, preferred population and work hours, and even hobbies that could become involved.

How could these all become connected?

Eighteen SLPs who switched careers did so in a wide variety of creative ways. Details of their transition journeys are included in Alternative Career Options for SLPs, by Katie Schwartz (Business Speech Improvement, publisher).  (Many of these choices would also be applicable for burnt-out physical therapists, occupational therapists, and special educators.) Each story includes what the original career setting was, the process of change, what the person chose to do, the positives and the negatives of the choice, and how to get started in the new field, if the reader is interested.

The book also includes a self-assessment questionnaire, to help readers consider possible future options.

The book can be ordered from www.BusinessSpeechImprovement.com.