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Types of work settings

When you are a Speech Pathologist, there are so many varieties and types of people that you can work with! If you like children, you can work in a school system or privately teach them. If you are the type of person that would like to work with elders, a rehabilitation center might be the place for you. It honestly depends on you! It is important that you choose wisely so you are not stuck in a career that you don't enjoy. Here are some of the settings you could possibly work with:

• Early Intervention Programs
• Public School Systems
• Private School Systems
• Private Clinics/Private Practice
• Hospital Inpatient/Outpatient
• Rehabilitation Centers
• Skilled Nursing Facilities
• Home Health Agencies
• Corporations/Businesses (Accent Reduction)
• Profit or non-profit agencies that provide speech and language services

Early Intervention programs are specially made for children that are ages 3 and younger. The parents of these children are mainly afraid that they aren't listening because they aren't talking yet. I know someone like this. He doesn't really say many words other than "Mama" and "Dada". He's learning, it's just that he doesn't know how to transfer his thoughts to his words in complete sentences yet.

A hospital setting is exactly what it sounds like. A speech pathologist is kind of a therapist or doctor at the hosptial more than a teacher like they would be in a school system. They do more of a deciphering the problem and figuring out medicines more than they would train them to speak words correctly.

Rehabilitation Centers are neat places to be a speech pathologist in because you are typically helping people that are going through things like strokes. I think it's really cool to help someone close to your age learn how to speak again. 

   If I were to do any of the options in this list, I would work in a school system. It's hard for me to picture myself not working with people that have special needs or with young children. It would hopefully be social skills that they would keep for the rest of their lives. I have a passion for children and their innocence. I feel like pediatrics would be the place for me if I were to work in a hospital setting. Those are the only 2 options that I have looked into deeper than the others. 

"Early Detection of Speech, Language, and Hearing Disorders." Early Detection of Speech, Language, and Hearing Disorders. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 May 2015.

"10 Awesome Reasons Why Being a Speech Pathologist Rocks!" Friendship Circle Special Needs Blog. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 May 2015.