Speech and Language
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What does a Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP) do?
SLPs work in hospitals, therapy clinics, nursing homes, schools, and more! Some our duties at school are listed below:
🤔 Teach strategies to help students understand what they hear & read
😀 Help students learn how to express their thoughts & ideas clearly
💬 Work with students who struggle to say sounds correctly
🔑 Help students who stutter
🗣 Help students who have a hoarse or breathy voice
👫 Improve students' social communication skills
📖 Support the development of early reading skills
❓ Answer questions about speech & language development
👍 Provide parents & teachers with strategies to help improve the communication of their students
Learn more:
- What is speech? What is language?
- Communication Development: Kindergarten to 5th Grade
- Speech and Language Services in Schools
- Learning More than One Language