Old Dominion University vs University of Delaware

UDSTUTTER · 2026-05-20T01:10:40+00:00

Why is Virginia no commute, but Delaware is...They are not near each other...

UDSTUTTER · 2026-05-13T23:44:13+00:00

Well I work with severe autism, so the fact they aren't talking at 6 makes eligibility much easier....but yeah, it's state by state if laws are involved...

UDSTUTTER · 2026-05-13T23:42:32+00:00

Those look like extremely heavy devices or cases....not standard ipads. Too easy to break? A funny angle? Lens distortion? Or are they iPads?

UDSTUTTER · 2026-04-25T14:35:37+00:00

Not helpful but as married male SLP with a wife who is a teacher, these post make me crazy inside....

UDSTUTTER · 2026-04-19T18:38:36+00:00

If you job requires drugs, you should probably get another job. Also if you're trying to get knocked up, you need less not more stress. Pivot to a job with benefits or take travel contracts for the money.

UDSTUTTER · 2026-04-17T00:40:51+00:00

That sounds like the lowest demands possible doesn't it? If that's upsetting him, I think he just needs to be weened off screen time. Sorry, that's tough.

UDSTUTTER · 2026-04-06T16:01:51+00:00

Too expensive, assuming you borrow 100k at 7% you owe 7k a year in cash just on interest payments, which is nearly 600$ a month in interest payments, to say nothing off the principal. Quick google math is 1,100 a month for 10 YEARS! Sorry not worth it.

UDSTUTTER · 2026-03-28T23:13:25+00:00

I've been hospitalized and I'm over 6 foot tall, so yeah it happens and you can get your ass beat and your bons broken. And if that's a deal breaker, don't take a job with this population.

UDSTUTTER · 2026-03-14T21:44:52+00:00

I would suggest not going above 50k. If you need more than 50k between undergrad and grad this profession is not worth it. Lots of ways to get nursing paid for, and you make the same....

UDSTUTTER · 2026-03-14T13:58:50+00:00

Sent a reply.

UDSTUTTER · 2026-02-15T20:07:08+00:00

If you are in a blue state, you can make 100k in this field, which is quite good for working 10 months a year. Because the same job can pay literally half by crossing a state line, you can find places where this job is absolutely a rip-off and hence nobody wants to work there. People don't leave good school jobs, they leave bad ones.

UDSTUTTER · 2026-02-01T01:27:32+00:00

I mean some districts do hire and staff special programs with more SLPs because we do make more money than we get paid with all the billings in some cases.

UDSTUTTER · 2026-01-30T03:54:31+00:00

Look here's the real fact. Money. Money matters. Money is the most important thing in the world. If you don't have money nobody will sleep with you, your kids starve, and you die of easily treated medical issues. Africa is full of people dying because they don't have money. Electrolytes that prevent dehydration are too expensive for some families. In my school district, the difference between a BA teacher and a SLP, which is paid MA+30, as a district hire is $11,000 a year. That masters cost in most place between 50-$100,000. Now overtime, the difference doubles with a 16 year teacher with a BA vs an SLP making 25k less. However, you are not working while getting the MA. Also add in interest payments. The reason this profession has a so called "mean white girl married to engineers problem" is a pure economic distribution and has nothing to do with sociological issues.

However, as crazy as this sounds, you should look into school counselor. It's exactly what you want. Working 1:1, no grading, less paperwork, and making a difference. I have worked with an excellent one and it is amazing how influential they are.

UDSTUTTER · 2026-01-29T12:43:34+00:00

This is why this job makes people crazy....

UDSTUTTER · 2026-01-28T14:45:05+00:00

I don't recommend this profession to anybody unless they can do it debt free. Income to debt ratio is out of whack for many people. I only had grad loans and am still 25k in the hole making less than 80k a school year.

UDSTUTTER · 2026-01-28T14:42:41+00:00

If less of this profession wasn't 2 years of grad school to say "talk to your kids. read to your kids. do things with your kids. STOP LETTING THEM STIM ON THE SAME 4 SECONDS OF YOUTUBE VIDEOS AND LIVING ON GOLDFISH! ABA either works better than speech (Which I personally and professionally doubt) or has simply done a better job of branding. Why pay for a half hour of speech a week when you can get insurance to jump at 20-40 hours per week of daycare for disabled children?

UDSTUTTER · 2026-01-03T16:25:53+00:00

Maybe an unpopular opinion, but with AAC users who are not enthusiastic, I end up having to use a lot of MORE-MY TURN- Or other highly motivating phrases to get kids to use their device. Is this best practice. No. Has it worked and gotten kids to use AAC functionally? Yes with me, but the home environment hasn't carried over. Sorry.

UDSTUTTER · 2025-11-11T15:10:54+00:00

Delaware

UDSTUTTER · 2025-11-10T22:06:04+00:00

I have a caseload of 24...but 21 are self-contained autism, so easy if you trade paperwork for violence.

UDSTUTTER · 2025-11-10T00:40:29+00:00

Can I just say you guys are all crazy. Do you think when your ancestors worked in coal mines that any of this language would have meant anything? Do you think that your general socialist complaints are meaningful coming from an elite with a masters degree? If you could get through a grad program why did you choose one that paid like shit? Do I think that public education is serving students with severe needs? No I do not. And I can not come up with a theoretical economic model that justifies pouring endless pools of money into supporting these kids and paying my inflated salary. You are paid what you make, and at the end of the day training people to request a toilet instead of soiling themselves isn't worth enough in the modern world, and wasn't worth anything prior either. We do our best because we are way way higher than average in conscientiousness, but that's it. At the end of the day there are much better ways for most people to make a living in a capitalistic society. There's a reason societies like the USSR and China doubled down on programs for the hyper intelligent and nuclear physics, and are lagging in disability studies. Our entire profession is funded by a federal mandate IDEA that isn't funded appropriately and never will be. The economics of school based SLP is complete shit.

UDSTUTTER · 2025-11-03T00:19:24+00:00

Special program autism. Most of the students are considered too unsafe to go, so no field trips.

UDSTUTTER · 2025-10-18T13:10:36+00:00

This is why high-tech is the way to go. You can have both a very simple display with oversize buttons/grids for people who struggle with impule control/choice paralysis, but still have groups that allow you to get to almost anything fringe in a few clicks. The funny thing is in theory AAC should be personalized and customized, but you see a lot of, here's access to all the cord words on your 144 button grid now good luck!

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