11/11/2025
✅ Did you know? Speech Therapists support much more than speech.
Many people are surprised to learn just how wide our scope is. SLPs work across communication, feeding, swallowing, cognition, literacy, voice, and more.
Here’s a quick snapshot of what we do:
🎙️ Speech Sound Disorders
Clarity of sounds, articulation, and motor speech skills.
🧠 Language Disorders
Understanding and using language, including DLD and expressive/receptive delays.
📚 Literacy
Reading, writing, phonological awareness, decoding, comprehension, and written expression.
🥣 Feeding & Swallowing
Chewing, swallowing safety, and feeding challenges from infancy through adulthood.
👂 Fluency
Support for stuttering and cluttering, building confident communication.
🎧 Auditory Processing
Helping individuals who struggle to process spoken language despite normal hearing.
🗣️ Voice
Vocal strain, hoarseness, nodules, and support for professional voice users.
🧩 Social Communication
Conversation, play skills, nonverbal communication, and pragmatic language.
💬 AAC
Devices and communication systems for non-speaking or minimally speaking individuals.
🧓 Cognitive-Communication
Attention, memory, problem solving, and executive functioning.
✨ SLPs are communication, literacy, and swallowing specialists.
If you’re wondering whether an SLP can help your child, client, or team…
✅ probably yes.