Speech-language therapy, delivered by the discipline of speech-language pathology, is the evaluation and treatment of communication and swallowing disorders across the lifespan, including expressive and receptive language disorders, voice disorders, speech sound disorders, stuttering, and dysphagia. The profession in the United States traces a key founding moment to 1925, with the establishment of the American Academy of Speech Correction, an organization that would later become the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association in 1978, though informal groups of speech correctionists had already begun forming in the early twentieth century. Therapy typically involves structured exercises and strategies tailored to a patient's specific communication or swallowing impairment.
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Is speech-language therapy only for stuttering or pronouncing sounds?
No. It covers a broad scope of speech, language, literacy, swallowing and voice issues.
No. It is a common misconception that the field is limited to helping people enunciate sounds or treating people who stutter. In fact it covers a broad scope of speech, language, literacy, swallowing and voice issues involved in communication. Examples include word-finding problems, difficulties with social communication, reading and writing impairments, voice difficulties and swallowing disorders, which can occur at any age. The underlying causes vary and include stroke, brain injury, hearing loss, developmental delay, a cleft palate and cerebral palsy.
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Wikipedia contributors, Wikimedia FoundationSpeech-Language Therapy - History sectionQuote, Speech-Language Therapy - History section
The article identifies 1925 as a significant founding date, when the American Academy of Speech Correction was established.
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Speech-language pathology - Telepractice section
Following ASHA's 2005 approval of the delivery of speech/language services via video conference or telepractice, SLPs in the United States have begun to use this service model.
Speech-Language Therapy - Lead section
Speech-language pathology, also known as speech and language pathology or logopedics, is a healthcare and academic discipline concerning the evaluation, treatment, and prevention of communication disorders.
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Speech-language pathology, also known as speech and language pathology or logopedics, is a healthcare and academic discipline concerning the evaluation, treatment, and prevention of communication disorders, including expressive and mixed receptive-expressive language disorders, voice disorders, speech sound disorders, speech
In Group: Occupational, Speech and Cognitive Rehabilitation, Introduction, sentence 1
Speech-language pathology, also known as speech and language pathology or logopedics, is a healthcare and academic discipline concerning the evaluation, treatment, and prevention of communication disorders, including expressive and mixed receptive-expressive language disorders, voice disorders, speech sound disorders, speech disfluency, pragmatic language impairments, and social communication difficulties, as well as swallowing disorders across the lifespan.
View the SourceNational Organization for Rare Disorders: Koolen-de Vries Syndrome (NORD Rare Disease Database)
National Organization for Rare DisordersTreats: Koolen-de Vries syndrome, Standard Therapies, TreatmentQuote, Treats: Koolen-de Vries syndrome, Standard Therapies, Treatment
Early intervention programs, including physical, occupational and speech therapy can address developmental delays.
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