About SLPs:
When should a student by referred?
Students who have difficulty with the following skills may be referred for a speech/language screening or evaluation.
- We are known by many names: Speech Teacher, Speech/Language Teacher, Speech Pathologist, Speech Therapist, Speech/Language Therapist, Speech clinician, etc... However our technical title is Speech/Language Pathologist, or SLP for short.
- An SLP can provide a variety of students who have speech/language disorders or difficulties:
- screening and comprehensive evaluation
- direct therapy in a pull-out or push-in setting
- collaboration and consultation with classroom teachers, instructional/teacher assistants, parents, the IEP team and the evaluation team
When should a student by referred?
Students who have difficulty with the following skills may be referred for a speech/language screening or evaluation.
- Articulation (production of speech sounds)
- Following directions
- listening and reading comprehension (summarizing, main idea....)
- Auditory Processing skills (attending, memory, sound discrimination) Auditory processing can only be diagnosed by an Audiologist.
- Wh-questions (asking and answering)
- vocabulary (understanding, labeling, defining word meanings/word relationships)
- word-finding (tip of tongue)
- grammar
- narrative skills (the ability to describe things and events, and to tell stories)
- sequencing events
- fluency/stuttering
- Pragmatic skills (reasoning, problem solving skills, social interactions)
- Conversation skills (initiating/maintaining conversations)