Who is a Speech & Language Pathologist? 

School-based Speech & Language Pathologists provide services  to help children prepare for, perform, perform and achieve academic success and social participation in the school setting.

What do Speech & Language Pathologists in the educational settings do?

• Work on teams with teachers, school personnel and parents to assess, evaluate, and provide interventions for students with communication disorders

• Help students with language disorders to improve language comprehension and production (e.g., grammar, vocabulary, conversation and story-telling skills).

• Help students with articulation and phonological disorders to learn how to say speech sounds correctly.

• Assist students with language problems, such as understanding and giving directions, answering and asking questions, understanding and using English grammar, using appropriate social language and conveying ideas to others.

• Plan and implement interventions in fluency, speech, voice and/or swallowing disorders.

• Assist students who have had brain trauma relearn language and speech skills.

• Design and employ augmentative and assistive communication.

• Distinguish language differences from disorders for bilingual students.

• Counsel students and their families how to understand communication disorders and how to communicate more effectively in educational, social and vocational settings.

•  Consult with team members regarding language stimulation, inclusion strategies, social and behavioral adaptations and/or modifications.