speech therapists
Voice disorder specialists
Speech therapists are healthcare professionals who diagnose and treat disorders of speech, language, voice, and swallowing.
They work with children who have developmental delays, stroke patients relearning to speak, people who stutter, and those with voice problems.
Also called speech-language pathologists: The speech therapist helped him regain his ability to swallow after the accident.
- aphasiaNeurological language impairment
- mouthOral opening
- vocal cordsSound-producing throat membranes
- apraxiaVoluntary movement execution deficit
- voiceSound from throat
stuttering · repeat · words · say it again · articulation · fluency · dysarthria · cluttering · talk therapy · swallowing · mutism · language · phonology · communication · listen · cleft palate · voice disorders · interventions
- healthcare workersdoctor, nurse, surgeon, dentist, paramedic
- Licensed Occupationsdoctors, nurses, lawyers, dentists, pharmacists
- school staffteacher, teachers, principal, professor, librarian
- Deaf Communitydeaf people, deaf children, deaf students, deaf athletes, deaf interpreters
- healthcare regulationmedical boards, medical licensing, licensure, nursing board, regulatory bodies
- mandatory reportersteachers, doctors, nurses, social workers, counselors
speech, speaker, speechless, speaking, therapist, speakers, speeches, bespeak, speechlessness