Ming from Agents of Speech explains why private speech therapy has a shortage: most therapists are women who go part-time after having kids, driving up costs and leaving therapists with no time to teach parents. Parents need to educate themselves and take an active role in their child's therapy.
Approximately 90% ("90% are women").
From 8 to 5 (described as "from 8 to 5").
And then when you get to the point of where you start working, like myself, a lot of my colleagues now are moms. 90% are women. So what happens when you have 90% women in the industry? Right. They have kids and they want to become part time. And when you become part time, there's even more vacancies in the whole system. So I'm not being sexist or whatever or in any way. I'm just telling you the truth that I see these highly educated mothers who are going to become part time therapists just because they're so sought after. So you need to understand the costs are rising because the demand is high, the supply is low. But the thing is, in private speech therapy, I used to work in a private speech therapy center, we get very busy and it's just from 8 to 5. It's just like parent after parent after parent after parent. You don't have the luxury to sit down with you and tell you a lot of the reasons and the theories behind what we're doing. And that's why it's very important for you to educate yourself.
