Speech Therapist

        Speech language pathologists work to prevent, assess, diagnose, and treat speech, language, social communication, cognitive-communication, and swallowing disorders in children and adults.Speech disorders occur when a person has difficulty producing speech sounds correctly or fluently stuttering is a form of disfluency or has problems with his or her voice or resonance.Language disorders occur when a person has trouble understanding others receptive language, or sharing thoughts, ideas, and feelings expressive language. Language disorders may be spoken or written and may involve the form phonology, morphology, syntax, content semantics, and/or use pragmatics of language in functional and socially appropriate ways.