Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) provide a wide range of services, mainly on an individual basis, but also as support for individuals, families, support groups, and providing information for the general public. SLPs work to prevent, assess, diagnose, and treat speech, language, social communication, cognitive-communication, voice, fluency, and swallowing disorders, in children and adults. Speech services begin with initial screening for communication and swallowing disorders and continue with assessment and diagnosis, consultation for the provision of advice regarding management, intervention, and treatment, and providing counseling and other follow up services for these disorders.
Services are provided in the following areas:
⚈ Speech (phonation and non)
⚈ Language
⚈ Communication
⚈ Voice
⚈Feeding and ingestion
⚈ Joint disorders
⚈ Joint disorders
⚈ Dysarthria
⚈ Speech flow disorders (stutter, tachyology)
⚈ Developmental language disorders
⚈ Special Language Disorder
⚈ Language difficulties caused by mental disability
⚈ Hearing loss - deaf
⚈ Language and speech use disordes ( autism, Asperger syndrome, Semantic - Realistic disorder)
⚈ Learning difficulties
⚈ Craniofacial abnormalities
⚈ Head and neck surgeries
⚈ Neurogenic disorders and syndromes
⚈ Heart attacks and strokes - aphasia
⚈ Traumatic brain injury
Speech Language Therapy aims to:
↪️ Prevention
↪️ Diagnosis
↪️ Therapy / rehabilitation
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