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November 8, 2021

What Areas are SLPs Trained to Treat and Identify?

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By Reading & Language Learning Center (RLLC)

When many people think of SLPs, they think of a person who helps young children produce speech sounds correctly.  But they can do much more than that!  Speech-language pathologists are trained to treat people of all ages, from babies to the elderly.  Here are the areas SLPs are trained to identify and treat:

  • Speech Production: 
    • This includes working with articulation, phonological, and motor planning disorders.
  • Language: 
    • This includes both expressive language (talking and writing) and receptive language (listening and reading).  Many people don’t know that SLP’s also work with clients on social use of language.
  • Cognition: 
    • This includes areas such as memory, problem-solving, attention, and executive function.
  • Voice and Resonance: 
    • This includes helping people to modulate the pitch, volume, and nasality of their voice.
  • Feeding and Swallowing: 
    • This includes helping people to swallow safely and help remediate atypical eating patterns, such as refusing to eat or being extremely selective about foods.
  • Fluency: 
    • This includes teaching people who stutter strategies to make communication easier.  This also includes cluttering, a disorder characterized by rapid and irregular speech.
  • Auditory Habilitation or Rehabilitation: 
    • This includes working to improve auditory processing skills or helping to improve communication for people who have experienced hearing loss.

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