Getting Started

Empowering Your SLP Career With Teletherapy: Here’s What To Know

Teletherapy is more than a service delivery method; it’s a vehicle for accessible speech-language therapy and a gateway to career empowerment for speech-language pathologists (SLPs). Let’s take a closer look at remote speech-language therapy, why it’s gaining popularity in PreK–12 schools, and how SLPs can use it to level up their practice. Brought to you by Presence.

Getting Started as an SLP in Health Care

Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) in health care work with children and adults across various settings, collaborating with larger medical teams. Each setting offers unique employment and service delivery considerations.

Where Research and Clinical Practice Meet: Being a Research Audiologist

You may have had research experience in undergraduate or graduate school and believe that working in research isn't possible unless you have a PhD. However, research audiology allows you to bring the best of your clinical skills to the scientific table to contribute to discoveries that improve patient quality of life.

10 Questions to Consider Before Taking Out Student Loans

Student loans can help you pay for the education required to pursue a career in communication sciences and disorders. But before taking out student loans, future audiologists and speech-language pathologists should ask themselves these questions to make sure they're setting themselves up for success.

Getting Started as an SLP in Schools

Working in schools can be a unique and rewarding career for a speech-language pathologist (SLP). By working in schools, SLPs gain a unique view of the role that communication plays in social interaction and students’ classroom performance.

Future Job Outlook: Audiology

Audiologists are in increasingly high demand, as the U.S. population grows and ages. There are plenty of places for audiologists to work—over the next 10 years, nearly 2,100 new jobs will enter the market in a wide variety of settings, including schools and private practice.

Future Outlook: Speech-Language Pathology

Opportunities for speech-language pathologists will grow by 29% from 2020 to 2030—far outpacing the average for all occupations, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. SLPs can work in a variety of areas, including early identification and diagnosis, schools, and private practice.

Future Job Outlook: Faculty in Communication Sciences and Disorders

Prospects are great for those looking for full-time faculty positions at communication sciences and disorder programs at universities across the country. Faculty in CSD can focus on research, teaching, and/or service. CSD programs report many faculty searches with positions remaining unfilled.