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Work with nonprofits and other organizations that provide services for individuals with disabilities.
Behavior analysis, consulting (will take additional credentials and experience).
Becoming a family advocate who helps families of children with special needs navigate various procedings line IEP reviews, due process issues, ISL and group home placements, etc. is a popular career shift for experienced special ed teachers (and can be quite lucrative for those who really know their stuff and enjoy being hired guns), but it's less realistic for somebody who's not already spent time in the trenches, living and breathing special ed law.
How many years have you worked for the title company? At the time you switched was the pay at the new job lower, about the same, or higher? How are the benefits?
I have a bachelors (Special Ed), but I am not interested in becoming a teacher... it's there anything I can do besides teaching?
Good question! Tabula Rasa gave a great suggestion. I am actually considering special education. I would like to see what it's like being a teacher but I am already doing research on other things I can do. One thing would be to study applied behavior analysis. I feel that this would make me much more competitive and I could provide services to schools or centers. I feel that there is more freedom as a BCBA/BCaBA than special education teacher. Would you be interested in gaining experience in teaching and then perhaps going for a masters in it? You could then get your BCBA as well as try to work in administration (you may have to go back to university for this too).
I forgot that as a B.C.B.A., you could also be your own boss. You don't necessarily have to work at a center. Also, with that degree, you could be a therapist at an a.b.a. center. Careful though, depending on the state you live in, the pay can be really really low for an a.b.a. therapist, which is crazy considering the work they do and the fact that the owners of the centers can well afford to pay them more. Anyway, some centers might actually put you in a managerial position due to your degree and you would probably work on kids' I.E.P.'s and keeping up with the progress, etc. You could teach the higher functioning ones in a group. It's teaching but it doesn't come along with the paperwork a school requests of you. There is still paper work, however, just not as much from what I know.
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