#slpa

Does anyone know any other jobs for people with a bacherlor’s degree in linguistics? Or anything from the ones I know of?

These are the options I have explored: 

- Language teacher/ specially ESL 

- Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) or Speech Language Pathologist Assistant (SLPA) 

- Natural Language Processing Engineer/ Computational Linguist 

- Translator and/or Interpreter 

- Editor/proofreader/copywriter

- University professor/Academia 

- Lexicographer 

- Data linguist 

- Forensic Linguist

- Fieldwork / Language documentation and revitalization

I’m starting my senior year and still don’t have it very clear as to what I want to do after I graduate. 

I welcome any stories, opinions, references, knowledge, resources...

I’m looking to know the following things of these careers or others that you might know of:

- Salary and job opportunities. Are job offers scarce? 

- Work environment. Is it an office job? Individual vs teamwork? Do I get to work with other people? 

- Challenges of it. 

And then there's just really fucking funny moments.

Today I was working with a kid who is working on articulation (i.e. making the right speech sounds more or less) and they have trouble with /s/ and typically replace it with /f/

I have a game where the pieces are magnetic and at the end there's a magnetic wand you wave over the board and it picks up the pieces and kids go nuts for it

This particular kid was gleefully picking up the pieces with the wand and was amazed by the wand and proudly exclaimed "It sucks it up!" or so they tried to say

Hello Fellow Speechies and SLP-As,

I am an SLPA student at a local community college in Southern California. I am 31 years old. My first BA was in Psychology & Social Behavior. I have recently enrolled as a 2nd BA student at Eastern New Mexico University. The program is fully online.

I am also a stay at home with a toddler who has severe mixed receptive/expressive and articulation disorder.

I would love to connect other people in the field of Speech-Pathology. There are many resources provided by SLPs but I feel that there isn’t much out there for SLPAs.  I will be documenting my journey into this field. I will also be using this blog for study motivation.

I hope you will click that “Follow” button!

Traveling speech therapist assistant aka SLPA.