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Speech-language pathologists, sometimes referred to as speech clinicians or speech therapists, diagnose, evaluate, and provide treatments for persons who have speech, voice, language as well as eating and swallowing problems.
Speech pathologists work in hospitals, rehabilitation centers, physicians’ offices, speech language and hearing centers, home health care agencies, schools, colleges, and universities. A few work in private practice or contract out their services. They treat patients who experience speech and language problems as a result of hearing loss, stroke, brain injury or other debilitating conditions. Speech pathologists work with individuals who may suffer from eating and swallowing problems and/or speech and language difficulties. They are trained to evaluate and test a patient’s skill level in speech and language, to create and implement proper treatment programs, to operate audio-visual equipment for patient treatment, and monitor each patient’s progress. Speech pathologists may work part-time or full-time, although most work 40 hours a week.
High school students should study the sciences, health and related courses. A master’s degree in speech-language pathology is required. Course work includes study in speech, language, hearing, and communicative disorders as well as clinical training in the treatment of these disorders. Graduates with a master’s degree in the field must then complete a required number of hours in supervised clinical work, pass a written exam and finish a postgraduate internship to earn a Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC) offered by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
Marquette University
University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
University of Wisconsin - Madison
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh
University of Wisconsin - River Falls
University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point
University of Wisconsin - Whitewater
Average $51,520
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
2200 Research Blvd.
Rockville, MD, 20850-3289
800/638-8255 or 800/498-2071 or 301/296-5700
www.asha.org
Wisconsin Speech-Language-Pathology and Audiology Association
702 Eisenhower Dr. Suite A
Kimberly, WI, 54136
800/545-0640
www.wisha.org
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