The field of speech therapy is huge and varied, and that’s reflected in the many options for work settings
A speech therapist, also known as a speech-language pathologist, or SLP for short, treats language, communication, swallowing and other muscular disorders in people of all ages, from babies to the elderly. This encompasses a broad range of issues, including:
1) Articulation — training a person to produce the sounds we need for speech, and to put those sounds together into words.
2) Language — helping someone build up his ability to understand and use language (both oral and written). This includes vocabulary, syntax, storytelling, and more. Language therapy can also encompass phonological work for pre-reading and reading skills.
3) Social Communication — also known as the pragmatics of language, this involves helping someone learn the social aspect of how we communicate with others, such as turn-taking rules, how to pick up on social cues, how to appropriately modify conversation for the listener, and more.
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