Communication Sciences and Disorders
Is speech-language pathology the right profession for you?
Think about this: Speech-Language Pathologists (SLP) assist people with communication disorders improve their quality of life.
What do speech-language pathologists do?
- Help individuals with articulation disorders learn how to say speech sounds correctly
- Assist individuals with voice disorders develop proper control of the vocal and respiratory systems for correct voice production
- Assist individuals who stutter increase their fluency
- Help children with language disorders improve language comprehension and production (e.g., grammar, vocabulary, and conversation, and story-telling skills)
- Assist individuals with aphasia improve comprehension of speech and reading and production of spoken and written language
- Assist individuals with severe communication disorders with the use of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems, including speech-generating devices (SGDs)
- Help individuals with speech and language disorders and their communication partners understand the disorders to achieve more effective communication in educational, social, and vocational settings
- Advise individuals and the community on how to prevent speech and language disorders
- Help people with Swallowing disorders
- Help people with cognitive-communication disorders – the impairment of cognitive processes including attention, memory, abstract reasoning, awareness, and executive functions (e.g., self-monitoring, planning and problem solving).
- Auditory processing disorders – the inability to understand spoken language in the absence of a hearing problem.
- Accent modification for individuals without communication disorders.
(Source: www.asha.org)
Contact Us
Contact Information
- Campus Address
- Monroe Hall
- Phone:
- (570) 422-3247
- Fax:
- (570) 422-3850 (Fax)
- Title of Department Leader
- Department Chair
- Name
- Rachel Wolf
- E:
- rewolf@esu.edu
- Phone:
- (570) 422-3929
