Speech Language Pathologists provide services to prevent, assess, diagnose and treat speech, language, social communication, cognitive communication, and swallowing disorders in children and adults.
Speech language pathologists address typical and atypical communication and swallowing in the following areas:
Speech sound production: articulation, apraxia dysarthria, ataxia dyskinesia
Resonance: hypernasality, hyponasality, mixed resonance
Voice: phonation quality, pitch, loudness, respiration
Fluency: stuttering, cluttering
Language (comprehension and expression): phonology, syntax, morphology, semantics, pragmatics(use of language, social aspects of language), literacy (reading, writing, spelling), communication
Cognition: attention, auditory processing, memory, sequencing, problem solving, executive functioning
Feeding and swallowing/oral motor: oral, pharyngeal, laryngeal, esophageal, orofacial myology (including tongue thrust), oral-motor functions
