Speech and language therapy provides life-changing treatment, support and care for children and adults who have difficulties with communication, or with eating, drinking and swallowing. Speech and language therapists (SLTs) are allied health professionals. They work closely with parents, carers and other professionals, such as teachers, nurses, occupational therapists and doctors.
Speech and language therapists work with:
Babies with - feeding and swallowing difficulties
Children with - mild, moderate or severe learning difficulties, physical disabilities, language delay, specific language impairment, specific difficulties in producing sounds, hearing impairment, cleft palate, stammering, autism/social interaction difficulties, dyslexia, voice disorders, selective mutism
Adults with - communication or eating and swallowing problems following neurological impairments and degenerative conditions, including stroke, head injury, Parkinson's disease and dementia, head, neck or throat cancer, voice problems, mental health issues, learning difficulties, physical disabilities, stammering, hearing impairment
Children
Adult
Speech Therapy : Training to help people with speech & language problems
Voice Therapy : Non surgical technique used to improve or modify human voice.
Articulation therapy : Form of speech language therapy mainly focuses and how speech sounds are produced.
Stuttering Therapy : Method to reduce stuttering to some degree in an individual.
AVT : Method for teaching deaf children to listen and speak using their amplification devices.
