Speech-language pathology involves evaluating how people speak and communicate, and providing support to improve, manage, or prevent speech and language difficulties. It also focuses on helping individuals develop, maintain, or regain their oral motor and/or communication skills.

SLP’s scope of clinical practice includes the provision of assessment, treatment and consultation services for:

• Language delay and disorders

• Speech delays and disorders including apraxia, dysarthria, and motor speech impairment

• Communication disorders related to autism, developmental delays, learning disabilities, head injuries, cognitive disorders, hearing impairment and progressive neurological diseases

• Literacy

• Written communication

• Swallowing disorders

• Stuttering

• Alternative and augmentative communication needs

• Structural anomalies of speech and voice mechanisms