Speech and Language Therapy enables people to communicate to the best of their ability. It provides treatment, support and care for individuals with receptive, expressive, cognitive-communication and social difficulties/delays or disorders. Communication involves listening, processing, speaking, reading and writing.
Speech and Language Therapy focuses on:
- Articulation: the production of speech sounds.
- Phonology: the system of sounds.
- Fluency: the flow of speaking.
- Oral Language: the comprehension and/or use of spoken language also known as receptive and expressive communication.
- Social interaction and communication: the ability to receive, send, process, and comprehend concepts or verbal, non-verbal, and graphic symbol systems.
- Written Language: the comprehension and/or use of written and/or other symbol system.
- Cognitive and executive abilities: attention, memory, visual analysis, auditory processing, phonological awareness.
- Voice: resonance, volume, intensity, prosody, hygiene etc.
- Aural Skills: auditory discrimination, attention, memory etc.