Week 5: The work of a speech and language therapist

Introduction

Figure 1 A speech and language specialist at work

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A photograph of a speech language therapist working with a child.

Figure 1 A speech and language specialist at work

Have you ever considered what a speech and language therapist might do in their daily work? What kinds of issues might they come across when working with children’s speech and language?

The focus of this week is on how speech and language therapists (conventionally abbreviated to SLTs) treat children with difficulties in linguistic expression. While SLTs can work with either children or adults, in this week the focus is solely on children and in particular on children who are exposed to more than one language in their daily lives.

By the end of this week, you should be able to:

• be more familiar with the work of a speech and language therapist
• describe some of the issues involved in developmental delays in children of different ages.