What do speech-language pathologists (SLPs) do and where do they work?
SLPs work with people of all ages ranging from infants to the elderly. SLPs help children learn specific speech and language skills. Many of these children are simply delayed in their development. Others have impairments such as mental retardation, hearing loss, cerebral palsy, autism, or brain injury. SLPs help adults who have communication problems due to strokes, head injuries, degenerative diseases, cancer/tumors, or vocal fold pathologies. SLPs also work with individuals who have difficulty swallowing or who want to modify their accents or those who stutter. Work settings include: public schools, hospitals, clinics, rehabilitation centers, and private practice.
SLPs work with people of all ages, ranging from infants to the elderly. They help develop or restore communication for individuals who have impairments in fluency, articulation, language, voice, hearing, cognitive-linguistic language, and social language. They also work with individuals who have swallowing problems, and people who desire to modify their accent. Work settings include: public schools, hospitals, clinics, rehabilitation centers, and private practice.
