Speech therapists specialise in the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of communication and swallowing difficulties in children and adults.
Speech pathologists may work with the following etiologies and disorders:
- Neurological diseases (e.g. Cerebral Palsy, Multiple Sclerosis,Parkinson’s Disease, Motor Neurone Disease)
- Acquired brain injury (e.g. traumatic brain injury and stroke)
- Aphasia/dysphasia
- Cognitive/linguistic disorders
- Dysarthria
- Oral and verbal dyspraxia
- Trauma
- Oncology (head and neck cancer)
- Dementia
- Swallowing (dysphagia) and feeding disorders
- Developmental delay
- Speech difficulties
- Language difficulties
- Literacy difficulties
- Fluency disorders/stuttering
- Voice disorders (e.g. vocal fold nodules)
- Semantic-pragmatic disorder
- Autistic spectrum disorder
- Hearing impairment
- Cleft palate/lip
- Craniofacial syndromes and deformities
- Central auditory processing disorder
- Syndromes and other genetic conditions (e.g. Down Syndrome)