A Speech and Language Therapist (SLT) sees children and adults with speech, language and communication difficulties.
Reasons for a child seeing a speech therapist
- Child has few to no words
- Child’s speech is not clear
- Child has poor understanding of the language
- Child has a lot of nonsense (babbling) words
- Child stammers
We often see children for Speech and language therapy who have
- Intellectual disability
- Autism
- Down’s Syndrome
- Hearing impairment
- Cerebral palsy
- Cleft lip and palate
- Stammering
- Apraxia of speech
Reasons for adults seeing a speech therapist
Post stroke patients
– Slurred speech
– other speech problems
– Language understanding
– Difficulty in speaking
– Loss of language
Post brain trauma patients
– Voice problems – example: overuse of voice
We often see adults for Speech and language therapy who have
- Intellectual disability
- Down’s Syndrome
- Hearing impairment
- Stammering
- Aphasia
- Dysrathria
- Apraxia of speech
- Voice problems (vocal abuse, vocal cord paralysis etc.)
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