What do speech pathologists (speech therapists) do?
Speech pathologists work with individuals with speech and language disorders, as well as auditory processing disorders and children needing alternate communication devices.
What are the type of speech and language disorders in children?
Articulation Disorder: The sounds spoken in words are not correct. For example, the child may say "wabbit" for rabbit.
Receptive Language Disorder: This is difficulty understanding what is being said by others.
Expressive Language Disorder: This is poor skills or inability to form meaningful messages using age appropriate grammar and vocabulary.
Voice Disorders: This is a problem with pitch, loudness or quality in relation to a person's age and gender. Two common voice disorders in children are hypernasality (occurs in children with cleft palate) and vocal nodules which can occur from persistent vocal abuse.
Stuttering: Child has difficulty with rate, rhythm and/or fluency of conversational speech.
Auditory Processing Disorder: Individuals with this disorder may have difficulty sorting out speech from background noise, following multiple step directions, memory deficits for what you hear, and reading, writing and spelling.
Augmentative Communication is an alternate means of communicating by either a Picture Exchange System (PECS) or a communication device.
Receptive Language Disorder: This is difficulty understanding what is being said by others.
Expressive Language Disorder: This is poor skills or inability to form meaningful messages using age appropriate grammar and vocabulary.
Voice Disorders: This is a problem with pitch, loudness or quality in relation to a person's age and gender. Two common voice disorders in children are hypernasality (occurs in children with cleft palate) and vocal nodules which can occur from persistent vocal abuse.
Stuttering: Child has difficulty with rate, rhythm and/or fluency of conversational speech.
Auditory Processing Disorder: Individuals with this disorder may have difficulty sorting out speech from background noise, following multiple step directions, memory deficits for what you hear, and reading, writing and spelling.
Augmentative Communication is an alternate means of communicating by either a Picture Exchange System (PECS) or a communication device.