What does a School Speech Language Pathologist do?

SLP's have a variety of responsibilities and service models:

• Pull-out Speech/Language Therapy                                                     

• Push-in/Direct Consultation in the Classroom

• Indirect Consultation with Classroom Teachers

• Parent Consultation

• Classroom Observations

• Diagnostic Evaluations

• Member of Instructional Support Service Team

• Member of Committee on Special Education

We treat the following disorders:

• Articulation - the atypical production of speech sounds characterized by substitutions, omissions, additions or distortions that may interfere with intelligibility.

• Language - impaired comprehension and/or use of spoken, written and/or other symbol systems. The disorder may involve (1) the form of language (phonology, morphology, syntax), (2) the content of language (semantics), and/or (3) the function of language in communication (pragmatics).

• Pragmatic Language - the system that combines the above language components in functional and socially appropriate communication.

• Hearing - the result of the impaired auditory sensitivity of the physiological auditory system. A hearing disorder may limit the development, comprehension, production, and/or maintenance of speech and/or language. 

• Fluency - an interruption in the flow of speaking characterized by atypical rate, rhythm, and repetitions in sounds, syllables, words, and phrases. This may be accompanied by excessive tension, struggle behavior, and secondary mannerisms.

• Central Auditory Processing Disorders - deficits in the information processing of audible signals not attributed to impaired peripheral hearing sensitivity or intellectual impairment.  Specifically, CAPD refers to limitations in the ongoing transmission, analysis, organization, transformation, elaboration, storage, retrieval, and use of information contained in audible signals.