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Canadian data · Ontario, Canada
Four sessions before lunch. A six-year-old who will not make an /s/ sound, then a man relearning speech nine months after a stroke. You run the drills the clinician designed, log every trial, and hold the room steady when a parent cries in the doorway.
College diploma, 1–2 years
A certificate — it says you studied. Employers want it; the law doesn't require it.
$9,000 – $14,000 tuition
You do not earn while you learn.
$46k – $70ka year, Ontario
The low number is what you should plan on for the first years.
Openings a year
340 openings a year · More of it each year
School boards keep adding caseload faster than they add people.
Who else is asking
about 4 people per opening
Easy outside the big cities. Rural postings go unfilled for months.
Whether a machine takes it
exposure: medium
Software runs the drills now. Somebody still has to keep a six-year-old in the chair.
Where the work is
everywhere
Clinics cluster in cities, school boards do not. The unfilled jobs are outside them.
Who actually does it
who's in the room
Overwhelmingly people who did one year of something else first and switched.
How soon you earn
About 14 months before you earn
Counted from the day you decide, not the day you start.
No bottleneck. School boards and clinics both hire, and rural postings go unfilled.
You do the repetition and someone else signs the plan. Some people find the ceiling frustrating.
Speech-language pathology (with a master's), early-years program leadership, assistive tech.
Volunteer one hour at a public library's children's reading circle and watch who struggles.
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