I'm a Speech-Language Pathologist. Why I did it and why I need it

Who a Speech-Language Pathologist is and answers to your questions about it.

I still can't believe it 🙈 This is a milestone for me! Needless to say, the studying was hard and challenging. But it was worth it!

Every day we had different, awesome professors, who taught different subjects.

We studied at the Department of Speech Therapy and Logopsychology.
We studied:

Acoustic issues of modern logopedic practice -12 hours

Neurological basіs of language pathologist -24 hours

Modern trends in diagnosing, innovative technologies of correctional training of people with severe speech disorders - 36 hours

What do speech-language pathologists treat?

• Articulation - the way we say our speech sounds
• Phonology - the speech patterns we use
• Apraxia - difficulty planning and coordinating the movements
• Fluency disorders (stuttering)
• Dislalia - dificulty in talking due to a structural abnormality
• Dislexia
• Disgraphis
• Voice
• Deafness/hearing loss
• Oral-motor disorder - weak tongue or lips
• Swallowing/Feeding disorder - difficulty in chewing/swallowing
• Dysarthria - difficult or unclear articulation of speech that is otherwise linguistically normal.
• Rhinolalia
• Alalia - loss of speech due to an impaired articulatory apparatus
• Aphasia is condition characterized by either partial or total loss of the ability to communicate verbally or using written words. A person with aphasia may have difficulty speaking, reading, writing, recognizing the names of objects, or understanding what other people have said.
Language Disorders:
• Receptive Language - difficulty in understanding language
• Express Language - difficulty in using language
• Pragmatic language - difficulty in social comunication the way we speak to each other

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