How Can The Speech-Language Pathologist Help?
The clinical methods used will vary depending upon the nature and severity of the problem, the age of the individual, and the individual’s awareness of the problem. Speech-language pathologists provide many specialized professional services that include, for example: • Helping people with articulation disorders learn proper production of speech sounds; • Assisting people with voice disorders to develop proper control for correct production; • Assisting people who stutter to increase the amount of fluent speech, and to cope with this disorder; • Assisting people with aphasia to re-learn language and speech skills and sentence order or to compensate for lost language and speech skills; • Counseling people with speech and language disorders and their families to understand their disorder and to achieve normal communication in educational, social, and vocational settings; • Advising individuals and the community on how to help prevent speech and language disorders. • Helping people underst
