Speech & Language Therapists

Speech and Language Therapists

Speech and Language Therapy is concerned with the assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management of communication, voice and feeding/swallowing disorders associated with a wide variety of conditions across the life span.

Speech and language therapists work in a number of different contexts which include community health care centres, hospitals, rehabilitation units, group homes, extended care facilities, voluntary agencies, service users’ homes and universities.

They assess, diagnose and treat clients for a variety of disorders including:

• Childhood speech and language disorders, stammers, acquired speech and language disorders (such as brain injury or disease), voice disorders;
• Eating, drinking and swallowing difficulties.
• Speech and Language Therapists also work with clients who cannot communicate through normal means to develop alternative forms of communication, such as specialised computer devices. (IASLT)