Sofia Diaz 

• The average SLP salary in the U.S. is $101,000

• The average salary range in the U.S. is $77,000 to $125,000.

• You must get your Master’s Degree for Speech-Language Pathology, and admissions are very competitive

  • You also must make sure both of your degrees, but especially your undergrad degree for graduate school admissions purposes, have been accredited by ASHA.

    • Link to see if schools are accredited

  • You then have to take the GRE for graduate school admissions

    • Typical scores

  • Some other important factors for graduate school admissions include

    • GPA

      • The school you went to doesn’t matter so much, so long as you had a good GPA and did well wherever you went to school

        • This is the case with CMU, however you do receive a point towards admission for having gone to CMU as an undergrad

    • Letters of Recommendation

      • Clint Fitzpatrick CMU Dean of Allied Health Professions

SLP Duties

• Speech-Language Pathology (SLP) is an allied health and helping profession in which various speech disorders are assessed, diagnosed, and treated.

• According to the American-Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA; n.d.), SLP’s job is defined as the following: “SLPs work to prevent, assess, diagnose, and treat speech, language, social communication, cognitive-communication, and swallowing disorders in children and adults”.

  • (Day in the Life of an SLP).

• Collaboration with co-workers and

• Thinking of creative ways to accomodate for students with various disorders.

• Language project for ESL learners (this depends on which specialization path of SLP you follow)

• Peer editing of writing among co-workers

• Writing progress reports for clients