The role of a school based SLP is to provide support to school-age children with communication disorders that adversely affect children’s educational performance.
An SLP works with children with a variety of communication disabilities:
Language-*Difficult with vocabulary, concepts or grammar
*Poor building blocks of understanding/expressing ideas,
social development, learning, reading, and writing
*Too loud or too soft
*Too loud or too soft
*Harsh, hoarse, breathy, or nasal
*monotonous in pitch
*unsteady flow or rhythm
*monotonous in pitch
*unsteady flow or rhythm
*hesitations, repetitions, or prolongations
*in sounds, syllables, words, or phrases
*Substitution of one sound for another ("dat" for "cat")
*Omitting a sound in a word (cool for school)
*Distorting a sound
