SLP stands for a Speech Language Pathologist. The short definition: An SLP evaluates, diagnosis, and treats speech disorders/delays, language disorders/delays, social skill/pragmatic language disorders, feeding/swallowing difficulties, fluency disorders, voice disorder, and more.
Let’s break it down.
Speech: SLPs use research-based treatment methods to support people’s accurate production of speech sounds. You may have heard of articulation disorders, phonological disorders, or Apraxia of Speech. These fall within the “speech” domain.
Language: SLPs use research-based treatments to support language development. Language is an even larger part of “SLP” than many think. We support vocabulary acquisition, sentence structure, overall grammar, executive functioning (organization of language), listening comprehension, writing, and more. Many diagnoses that may be supported with language treatments include receptive/expressive language disorders, ADHD, and Autism among others.
Pathologist: Pathology is the study of the causes and effects of a disorder. An SLP will diagnosis and treat disorders and deficits specifically within our domain only.
So although "Speech Language Pathologist" is only a three word title, these three words carry a lot of meaning.
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