Services include the following: Identification of children with speech or language impairments. Diagnosis and appraisal of specific speech or language impairments. Referral for medical or other professional attention necessary for the habilitation of speech or language impairments. Provision of speech and language services for the habilitation or prevention of communicative impairments. Counseling and guidance of parents, children, and teachers regarding speech and language impairments.
The medical science concerned with the diagnosis and correction of speech or language defects and disorders. Conditions range from simple sound substitutions to the inability to understand or use language.
A pathologist licensed in the treatment of speech disorders.
The professional study and treatment of defects, disorders, and malfunctions of speech and voice, as stuttering, lisping, or lalling, and of language disturbances, as aphasia or delayed language acquisition.
the study of the causes for diseases and disorders that minimize or halt the use of voice and ability to talk.
The study of speech defects and disorders such as stuttering and dysphasia.
1. The study of abnormalities of speech and voice. 2. A specialist in speech, language and voice disorders.
Speech pathology, also termed speech-language pathology and speech & language therapy (SLT, mainly in the UK) is the study of disorders that affect a person's speech, language, cognition, voice disorders and swallowing disorders. Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) or Speech and Language Therapists (SLTs) address people's speech production, vocal production, swallowing difficulties and language needs through speech therapy in a variety of different contexts including schools, hospitals, and through private practice.