A Survey of Corporate Speech Pathologists' Demographic Characteristics, Professional Activities, and Career Satisfaction

Abstract

Purpose: Survey methodology was used to examine a sample of corporate speech pathologists' demographic characteristics, professional activities, and career satisfaction. Method: Forty-one members of the Corporate Speech Pathology Network (CORSPAN) responded to an online survey. Participants described their corporate practices in terms of their professional training, experience, client characteristics, services provided, marketing practices, and job satisfaction. Descriptive statistics were calculated for individual survey items and correlations between pairs of items. Results: In general, respondents reported (a) spending approximately one third of their work-related time in direct client training; (b)employing a variety of marketing tools to promote their corporate speech pathology (CSP) services; and (c) being experienced with accent/dialect modification, articulation/pronunciation, and speech rate modification. Results of paired t tests revealed that par- ticipants were significantly more satisfied with their cur- rent corporate practice than with their prior work setting. Results provide preliminary quantitative data pertaining to the attributes and activities of the corporate speech pathologist.