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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Great topic.  I am in the same situation and am considering speech therapy. I spoke with the SLP at my son's school and she recommended it as you can work for a school, hospital, nursing home, or private practice depending on your pay and flexibility requirements.

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I'm a speech therapist..... ask me anything  :lol: 
Actually, speech therapy would be 2 years full time but most likely 3 years because there are certain sciences/background classes you would need for a masters program.  There are masters programs that will provide the 3 years and others that will require to take those classes first.  I absolutely love my job and find it very rewarding and also flexible.  I work for the school systems and have worked with Autism programs, Infants and Toddlers, General populations, preschool.  I have also done private practice and worked in a group home for adults with intellectual disabilities, adults who have had strokes and what not.  That being said, teachers and "specialists" like the occupational therapist, physical therapist are all on the same salary scale.  Which means, you can do less schooling but still be paid pretty much the same (although the more credits you have the more money you could make).  I would consider being an ESL teacher.  Much less schooling and they are working on language development like a speech therapist would.  They also have the ability to have a more flexible position (don't have to be full time like a teacher does) and have small groups of kids (versus a whole classroom).  The same thing goes for a Reading Specialists.  My experience is with Montgomery County Schools.  It may be different in other counties.  Salaries are pretty decent and the benefits are great.  School counselor positions are good but in my experience (even with the boomers retiring) somewhat hard to come by and some of those positions were cut with the recession.  [/quote]

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