Career Path - Communication Disorders

Three Major Career Paths

Audiology: Involves treating people who have hearing or other related disorders.

Speech-Language Pathology: Includes treating and assessing people who have speech, voice, fluency, and language disorders.

Research: Involves studying and researching communication and other related disorders.

 

Jobs to Consider

 

Explore More Career Paths

Explore Health Careers - career information on audiologists and speech language pathologists

Indiana Speech and Hearing Careers - find jobs in the area of speech and hearing in Indiana · Indiana Healthcare Careers - find jobs, professional associations, licensing and continuing education information across the state of Indiana

 

Places to Seek Employment

  • Adult Day Care Centers
  • Colleges and Universities
  • Centers for Persons with Developmental Disabilities
  • Community Health Clinics
  • Corporate Speech-Language Pathology
  • Hospitals
  • Private and Group Practice
  • Uniformed Services
  • Public Health Departments
  • Rehabilitation Centers
  • Research Agencies
  • Special Schools
  • Public and Private Schools

 

Job and Internship Search Resources

American Academy of Audiology - employment opportunities for those interested in a career in audiology

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association - career information, job search resources, higher education information

Audiology Online - job postings for audiology positions across the U.S.

Kansas Speech Language Hearing Association - job postings in Kansas and licensure information

Kids Camps - opportunities to work at camps for kids with communication disorders

Kidsplay Therapy Center - job postings for speech pathologists working with children

KU Department of Speech Language and Hearing Clinical Opportunities - various clinical opportunities for students

National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders - job postings related to people living with communication disorders

National Student Speech Language Hearing Association - resources for finding summer employment, speech-pathology and audiology Q&A, and other helpful links

PediaStaff - search for speech, language, & hearing jobs by state

Speech Ville Express - find Speech-Language-Hearing Associations by state

Therapy Jobs.com - contains thousands of therapy-related job listings, including speech language pathology