Are you considering a career as a speech therapist (also known as SLPor speech language pathologist) or are you a new grad looking for speech therapy jobs? There are several different career paths you might take as a speech therapist:
- Pediatric Speech Therapist – speech therapists who only work with children in areas including language, fluency, pronunciation, swallowing or feeding. Workplaces can include private companies, clinics, schools, hospitals
- Adult Speech Therapist – speech therapists who only work with adults who typically have experienced some form of head or brain trauma or stroke resulting in speech problems. Workplaces can include private companies, hospitals, clinics, nursing homes.
- Management – speech therapists who work in a managerial role in a clinic, hospital, rehab facility, nursing home.
- Travel Speech Therapist – speech therapists who travel from facility to facility for short periods of time (a few months at each location).
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Speech-language pathology is the study of disorders that affect a person’s speech, language, cognition, voice, swallowing (dysphagia) and the rehabilitative or corrective treatment of physical and/or cognitive deficits/disorders resulting in difficulty with communication and/or swallowing.
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.
Communication includes speech (articulation, intonation, rate, intensity, voice, resonance, fluency), language (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics), both receptive and expressive language (including reading and writing), and non-verbal communication such as facial expression and gesture. Swallowing problems managed under speech therapy are problems in the oral and pharyngeal stages of swallowing (not oesophageal).
Depending on the nature and severity of the disorder, common treatments may range from physical strengthening exercises, instructive or repetitive practice and drilling, to the use of audio-visual aids and introduction of strategies to facilitate functional communication. Speech therapy may also include sign language and the use of picture symbols or Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) (Diehl 2003).
The practice is called:
* Speech-language pathology (SLP) in the United States and Canada
* Speech and language therapy (SLTs) in the United Kingdom, Ireland and South Africa. Within the United Kingdom a Speech and Language Therapy team is often referred to by clinicians as the “SALT” team.
* Speech pathology in Australia
* Speech-language therapy in New Zealand
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