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In the rehabilitation sector, the job of a speech therapy assistant is a popular and rewarding career option for SLP professionals. Now, numerous vacancies exist for locally as well as internationally trained speech and language therapy assistants in various parts of the US.

Maximize the Patients’ Skills and Abilities

A speech language therapy assistant assists licensed speech pathologists in developing treatment plans and improving the patients’ vocal production, speech production and a variety of speech language disorders. Therapy assistants perform a variety of tasks, which include:

o Speech language screenings
o Supervising specified treatment protocol
o Monitoring patients’ progress and documenting it

Qualifications Necessary to Practice as SLP Assistants

An associate degree or certification in SLP is the minimum requirement necessary to work as an SLP assistant. The associate degree program you choose must fulfill ASHA (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association) guidelines. Therapy assistants can advance to become therapists after obtaining the required qualifications.

A wide variety of healthcare settings in the United States now offer permanent, travel, temporary, short term, long term, full time and part time job positions for therapy assistants.

Competitive Salary/Benefit Package

A speech language therapy assistant can earn great pay and associated benefits. Salary-bonus benefit package may vary depending on experience, type of setting and location. In addition, you receive:

o Life insurance
o Excellent medical, vision and dental insurance
o Professional liability insurance
o Short term disability insurance
o 401(k) retirement savings plan
o Paid housing
o Relocation expenses
o Immigration processing
o Additional licensure
o Travel allowance

Your Ideal SPLA Job Right Away

To obtain quality experience, find excellent placements via experienced recruiters. They know exactly what therapy assistants are looking for in an ideal position. Understanding your needs, they assist you in finding a suitable position in the right environment, quickly and easily. New graduates as well as experienced speech language therapy assistants, interested in assistant job opportunities, can apply online.

Here’s the big debate: Long term care insurance isn’t necessary for you. Some people are unyielding in their position that they’ll never get long term care insurance. I am not referring to those who are so rich that they can easily pay for long term care without becoming financially ruined. I’m not also talking about those who really are so poor that they qualify for Medicaid. I am referring to those who neither qualify for Medicaid because they’re not poor nor can pay for a year’s stay in a nursing home without becoming financially ruined. This article will take a look at the debate: Long term care insurance — Is it Wisde?

Americans are living longer. That’s good news. It’s also bad news because the older people grow the more they are likely to require some form of long term care. Statistics show that one out every two of up to 40 percent Americans aged 65 and above are likely to enter a nursing home within their lifetime. Another report estimates that about 12 million Americans will require long term care by 2020. Can you stand the pain you’ll cause if you eventually need long term care without long term care insurance?

If there’s a fifty/fifty chance that something will happen, isn’t it a smart move to be insured against it. Oh, it’s 50/50 for 40% of a given population. But consider this: More than half of those who end up requiring long term care pay for it out of their own pockets (That’s about $80,000 per annum). They saw it as something that happened only to others until they found themselves needing it.

If you think that’s bad then you’re in for a big surprise: These folks end up using up their life savings and painfully end up becoming welfare statistics as they end up falling back to Medicaid. Simply put, they become poor enough to qualify and that’s really sad.

Is maintaining a stiff stance on long term care insurance then a wise one? Is becoming a burden to your children because you were a little thoughtless worth it? Is playing the probability game right if you’re on the wrong side of the divide? You may never need long term care. That’s a fact. But if you plan to live long you MAY need it. That’s also another fact. You can decide how you want to use these facts: Take an unnecessary high devastating risk or play safe.

Visiting insurance quotes sites for comparison shopping will enable you save a lot (maybe a couple of thousands) in insurance. This is especially true if you have many insurance policies. All you have to do is get and compare quotes for each. You will make savings if you use just one of such sites.

But, you will get better results by visiting at least three. This provides you a broader basis for doing better comparisons thus increasing your chances of realizing more savings. If you do this well you can save enough from your existing policies to pay for long term care insurance without stretching your current insurance budget much. Please, if you decide to switch insurers do not terminate your existing insurance policy until the new one is fully operational.

Remember, while the debate on long term care insurance rages on you’ll then have the peace of mind knowing you can’t lose whoever wins: The guy who says you need long term care insurance or the guy who says you don’t.