What do SLPs do?
Speech-language pathologists can help with:
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Cognitive-communicative disorders including social communication skills, reasoning, problem solving and executive functions.
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Pre-literacy and literacy skills including phonological awareness, decoding, reading comprehension and writing.
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Communication disorders related to other issues. For example, hearing impairments, traumatic brain injury, dementia, developmental, intellectual or genetic disorders and neurological impairments.
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Speech delays and disorders including articulation, phonology and motor speech disorders.
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Language delays and disorders, including expression and comprehension in oral and non-verbal contexts
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Fluency disorders, including stuttering.
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Voice and resonance disorders.
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Swallowing and feeding disorders in adults, children and infants.