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
- Audiologist
- Children's Hearing Specialist
- Clinical Supervisor
- Consultant
- Industrial Audiologist
- Private Practitioner
- Researcher
- Speech Therapist
- Speech-Language Educator
- Speech-Language Pathologist
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