Speech Therapy
Speech Language Pathologists
Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) are individuals who work to prevent, assess, diagnose, and treat speech, language, social communication, cognitive-communication, and swallowing disorders in children and adults.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Early identification and intervention of speech and language milestones.
- Work with individuals who have issues in speech, language, or swallowing disorders.
- Provide auditory verbal rehabilitation (AVT) for individuals who are hearing impaired or hard of hearing.
- Provide augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems for individuals with severe expressive and/or language comprehension disorders, such as autism spectrum disorder or progressive neurological disorders.
- Overall development in achieving the independency in child’s daily living.
Children who are in need of Speech Language Therapy are usually with the
following disorders.
- Childhood Language Disorders: Autism, ADHD, ID, SLI, HI and/or any syndromes have difficulty in communication due to a delay in their receptive and expressive language age.
- Receptive Disorders
- Expressive Disorders
- Speech Disorders
- Articulation Disorders
- Fluency Disorders
- Resonance Disorders
- Voice Disorders
- Intelligibility of Speech
- Cognitive-communication Disorders
- Feeding and Swallowing Disorders
