SLPs: Searching for "Something Else" as a Career Choice?

"If I have to do another (choose one: barium swallow, IEP, insurance claim form, therapy session), it will be one too many!"These are words from frustrated speech-lamguage pathologists in various medical and educational settings. Often they are being asked to have high productivity with few or no materials (which are often ancient, if they exist at all) and endless paperwork for the payors or other agencies. No wonder SLPs get so upset and want to find "something better"!

Alternative Career Options for SLPs by Katie Schwartz is a book that tells about the career choices made by 20 SLPs who creatively combined their speech background with that of another field. Only one of the choices required significant additional education. Each chapter covers another career choice, why the SLP chose it, a typical day, and the positive and negatives of that choice.

The book includes a career self-assessment questionnaire to help readers consider options for themselves.

While the book was written about SLPs, many of the options would be equally appropriate for OTs and PTs/

Alternative Career Options for SLPs can be ordered at http://businessspeechimprovement.com/enabler/scripts/category.pl?Books.