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Speech and Language

Speech and Language Pathologists (SLP)

The Speech/Language Pathologist holds a Masters or Doctorate Degree in Communication Disorders. They can work in may settings such as health care, educational, community, vocational and home settings.
Public education settings often find a shortage of available SLP's because of the variety of settings in which they can choose to work and the limited number of students that can be admitted into graduate programs.
Some of our schools with special needs, have Communication Disorders Specialists (CDS) who work under the supervision of a Certified Speech and Language Pathologist. The CDS staff hold a bachelor's degree in Communicative Disorders and provide supervised services in schools that have needs beyond what the assigned SLP can provide.

Services Provided by the Speech Language Pathologist:

• The practice of Speech-Language Pathology includes screening, identification, assessment, diagnosis, treatment, intervention and follow-up for disorders of:
  Speech: articulation, fluency, voice (including respiration, Phonation, and resonance).
• Language: involves the parameters of phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics, (includes disorders of receptive and expressive communication in oral, written, graphic and manual modalities).
• Oral functions (swallowing, oral functions involving feeding and other orofacial myofunctional disorders).
• Cognitive aspects of communication (including communication disability and other functional disabilities associated with cognitive impairment).
  Social aspects of communication (including challenging behavior, ineffective social skills, lack of communication opportunities).
• Providing consultation and counseling and making referral when appropriate.
• Training and supporting family members and other communication partners of the individuals with speech, voice, language, communication and swallowing disabilities.
• Developing and establishing effective augmentative and alternative communication techniques and strategies and coordination of those services and needs with appropriate agencies.
• Collaborating in the assessment of central auditory processing disorders in cases in which there is evidence of speech, language, and/or other cognitive communication disorders; providing intervention for individuals with auditory processing disorders.
• Conducting pure-tone hearing screening for the purpose of the initial identification and/or referral of individuals with other communication disorders or possible middle ear pathology.
• Working in collaborative effort with other school personnel to assist students with communicative disorders to access the curriculum and classroom environment.