Crimson Wife

According to their website OK State *DOES* in fact require the GRE for their master's in SLP. They recommend "a combined verbal and quantitative GRE of 296; a verbal GRE of 153; and an analytical writing GRE of 3.5". The PP seems to be talking about doctoral programs in English Lit so I think she accidentally posted on the wrong subforum.

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You won't be able to do the 2nd bachelor's at Utah State if your 1st degree was in CSD. However, you can enroll as a non-degree student.

Are there any other programs out there that would qualify someone to become a neuropsychologist specializing in assessing children with hearing loss and suspected or known additional disabilities? I don't know any ASL and while I'd have a year to start learning, I'm not sure how welcome I'd be as a typically hearing parent who chose a cochlear implant for my deaf child. I've heard horror stories about bullying at Gallaudet but I don't know whether that extends to the graduate programs.

Look into programs that consider the last 60 units, study your backside off for the GRE, and maybe consider doing the AAC certificate that Cal State Northridge online offers. Address the health issues in your personal statement (you don't need to get specific due to medical privacy) to explain the poor grades but make sure you stress that you're doing better now.

Are you a member of NSSLSHA? I know they have a minority mentoring program that might be a good thing for you to look into.

This is the Speech & Language Pathology board. Hardly any of us are going to be winding up pursuing a tenure-track position in academia with "publish or perish" pressure and a LOT of SLP positions are part-time. Even "full-time" SLP positions may only be 30 hours/week for 36 weeks/year. So yes, it is INFINITELY easier to find a position with a family-friendly schedule after grad school is over in SLP.

During my 3 pregnancies I saw the OB/midwife for routine pre-natal checks at 8-9 weeks, 12 weeks, 16 weeks, 20 weeks, 24 weeks, 26 weeks, 28 weeks, 30 weeks, and then weekly from 32 weeks until delivery at 39-41 weeks. Then there were various lab and ultrasound appointments. With 2 of my babies I failed the 1 hour glucose testing and had to do the 3 hour one. With my 3rd pregnancy, I had to go for twice-weekly "non-stress tests" where I had to be hooked up to an ultrasound machine and fetal monitor for a hour at a time. At least with that pregnancy I was already a SAHM so I didn't have to worry about missing work. With my 2nd, I went into premature labor at 27 weeks but they were able to give me a shot to stop the contractions. I was worried that they might put me on bedrest for the rest of my pregnancy and I might have to use my paid leave even before my baby came, but fortunately after an afternoon in L&D they decided I was fine to resume normal activity. I do, however, know several women who DID end up on bedrest for a good chunk of their pregnancies. If you're going to be using IVF, that raises the risk of pregnancy complications and the likelihood of needing bed rest. It will take at LEAST 6 weeks to physically recover from a standard delivery and longer for a C-section (all of mine were standard). Honestly, if you are seriously wanting to go through pregnancy during grad school rather than waiting, I would find out if there is a PT track. If you can spread out classes and the practica over 3 years rather than 2, that would make things a LOT easier on you.

I can't tell whether you would be the one carrying your baby or your spouse. Pregnancy takes a physical toll on a woman and with my 2nd pregnancy I had a very rough time because I experienced horrible morning sickness from basically the time I found out I was pregnant until delivery. My OB wouldn't prescribe anti-nausea meds because I was "only" throwing up twice per day and never wound up hospitalized for dehydration. That said, if it's your spouse who will be carrying your baby, it probably isn't going to be any harder on you to be in grad school vs. employed FT after grad school. Our son was born during fall semester of my DH's last year in grad school. We timed it so that I had paid maternity leave and health insurance right up until spring semester started. The last semester we lived off of his signing bonus for his post-graduation job.

Some ideas aside from those previously mentioned: -behavioral interventionist at an Applied Behavioral Analysis therapy clinic -Lindamood-Bell tutor -Newborn Hearing screener -Clinical Nurse Assistant (requires ~10 weeks of training) and then working at a SNF or for a home health agency. This would be a good route if you're interested in medical SLP.

When my DH was a grad student, his last semester I was on unpaid maternity leave and no longer had health insurance coverage through my previous employer. At that time, it was cheapest to have him and our kids on the student plan and me buy my own individual "catastrophic" plan through my alma mater's alumni association. Obamacare did away with "catastrophic" plans but the new administration may allow them to be sold again. So when the fall rolls around, make sure you price out your options and don't automatically sign up for the student plan.

ASHA publishes a survey periodically. Here is the link to the one from 2016. Our school district starts at $73k but cost of living is super-high. If you don't have a spouse to help support you, you're going to have a long commute from outlying areas where housing is cheaper.

The harsh reality is that there are way more applicants with high GPA's and test scores than there are slots available. Programs get literally hundreds of applicants for only a few dozen slots. How do they decide which of the applicants with very similar academic qualifications deserve a slot? By what you're dismissing as "the icing on the cake". Things like volunteering, related paid work, etc.

Most programs ask for a resume, so that is where relevant volunteer work would go even if the application doesn't ask about it specifically. I've been out of the paid workforce since the birth of my son 11 years ago so most of what is on my resume is volunteer work. The clinic where my daughter gets speech therapy takes volunteers but uses them to do admin stuff. Things like photocopying and preparing materials for the SLP's. Definitely not worth the 60+ minute commute each way when I can do literacy tutoring working 1:1 with kids at my daughter's elementary school 5 minutes away. I've been doing that for 3 years now. I'm also involved with a local interfaith ministry that does ESL tutoring for adults, Special Olympics, and back in my 1st undergrad I volunteered at the Alzheimer's Ward at a local VA hospital.

Several online programs allow for non-degree status: Utah State, Idaho State, Eastern NM, and Wisconsin-Eau Claire are several of the more reasonably-priced options.

Looking at the UVM course list the things I see as missing that you would need to take at grad school: -Anatomy of Speech & Hearing (unless that's what "Speech and Hearing Science" is and if that's the case then you'd be missing the course that covers Speech Acoustics) -Articulation Disorders -Language Assessment and Intervention -Communicative Disorders -Audiology -Aural Rehab -Clinical Observation -Fluency -Voice That's an awful lot of courses to be paying grad level tuition for.

What do you mean by "transferable"? Do you mean transferring courses taken in one post-bacc into a 2nd bachelor's? I know with Utah State's 2nd bachelor's, they will only allow 1 course to transfer in and it has to be deemed an exact match for the USU course. I had taken a linguistics course that included a syntax module and tried to transfer that in for 5100 (Language Science) but it got denied. Grad schools will make you take any leveling course not included in your post-bacc as part of the master's at graduate level tuition. It's not like you get out of taking the course entirely. The cost difference is why I decided to do the full CSD 2nd bachelor's as opposed to just a few pre-reqs. I cannot afford to pay grad-level tuition for the same course that USU offers for much cheaper.

Saying this gently, but with your GPA, I would encourage you to look long and hard at why it's so low before attempting another field with notoriously difficult classes like nursing. The science pre-reqs for nursing are harder than CSD classes. I was pre-med for the 1st half of my 1st UG degree and before I settled on SLP, I actually looked into direct-entry MSN programs. I would have had to retake all those difficult science classes since they were more than 7 years old. I didn't want to be a nurse badly enough to do that. Now if your low GPA is due to maturity issues causing bad grades early on while your last 60 GPA is a lot higher, then maybe you'd have a shot.

UC Riverside Extension has an online "Psychology of Learning" that is also applicable to their certificate in Educational Therapy. A master's in SLP plus the certificate satisfies certification requirements to become a ed therapist.

I was pre-med for the 1st half of my 1st undergrad and while I was exploring options for relaunching my career, I did look into direct-entry MSN programs to become a Pediatric Neurology N.P. before deciding on SLP. What I found was that I had to re-take all the science pre-reqs because they were more than 7 years old. I asked about using the GRE subject tests (which I could self-study for) to validate the old coursework and was told no, I had to re-take the courses for credit. It's a long and difficult road just to become eligible to apply for direct-entry MSN programs if you don't have recent science courses on your transcript. That said, if you are interested in working with the elderly, SLP also offers opportunities with that population. Medical focused SLP actually pays better than working with kids in a school setting.

Are you even in Speech & Language Pathology? I see UC Riverside listed in your signature and AFAIK none of the UC's have SLP.

I'm not aware of any health insurance companies that pay for music therapy unless the music therapist is a licensed SLP or psychologist/counselor who can bill under that coding. There was also a music therapist who taught at my daughter's special ed preschool but she had a dual degree in music education and a state teaching credential. If you absolutely loved the idea of being a music therapist, I would say that it is possible to have a successful career as one, but you would almost certainly need a dual degree in something like education, psychology, or SLP.

A friend of mine is now doing online ESL tutoring of Chinese kids through VIPKID. It's $18/hr as an independent contractor (so you'd need to file self-employment taxes). Higher if you teach 30 classes (15 hours) in a month, and even higher if you teach 45 (22.5 hours). The hours are early morning (4-7 a.m. Pacific so adjust for your time zone) and flexible. No personal experience with them (yet) but I'm considering signing up after I finish this semester.

EI is typically paid per diem rather than salary and you may not get benefits. There's a lot of travel time and while you will likely get mileage reimbursement you probably won't get paid for it otherwise. Sometimes the homes are in dangerous neighborhoods. I would personally consider working in an EI preschool but not the typical home-based EI.

Unless the more expensive school has a specialty track in your desired area of interest that the first one doesn't, I would tend to agree with the statement.