The King's Speech is an amazing movie about a man who becomes king after his brother abdicates the throne. The new king, George the Sixth, happens to be a stutterer. He receives "speech therapy" from a self-taught speech coach. Despite that lack of formal training, the movie very effectively shows the courage of the King whenever he had to speak, as well as the bond of trust that grows between a speech pathologist and client.
Today's well-trained speech/language pathologists use different techniques and equipment than did the speech coach in the movie. However, whether a speech/language pathologist works in educational or medical settings, private practice or the corporate world, the bond of trust remains the same. As a speech/language pathologist, it is a privilege to help clients learn to communicate more effectively.
Business Speech Improvement (www.BusinessSpeechImprovement.com) provides intensive, targeted speech training and speech therapy to clients in business and industry.
Training is provided in-person and via e-books. Check our website for our Open Enrollment classes, individual coaching, and e-books on many topics!
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Saturday, August 7, 2010
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.
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.
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