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E D U C AT I O NA L R E S O U R C E S Me dic a l

SPEECH THERAPIST

Medical speech therapists are part


of an interdisciplinary team

For more educational


✓ Nurses
✓ Doctors resources and
Interdisciplinary Team

✓ Dentists materials… Dysphagia AAC LTC


✓ Dieticians SNF
Speech

Aphasia
Language
NICU
✓ Social Workers Swallowing Motor Acute
Apraxia Screen Care

Fluency
✓ Physical Therapists
✓ Respiratory Therapists Stuttering Rehabilitation

Nursing
✓ Occupational Therapists
Visit us at Pathology Voice Dysarthria
Therapy Feeding Linguistic
✓ Physician Assistants medicalslps.com Treatment Evaluate Expressive
✓ Nurse Practitioners
Receptive Cognitive Communication
✓ Nursing Assistants Hospital Neurological
✓ Psychologists
✓ Pharmacists
✓ And more… © 2019 Medical SLPs LLC.
All rights reserved.
W H AT D O E S A M E D I C A L S P E E C H T H E R A P I S T D O ?

Speech therapists assess, diagnose, and treat speech


and language, cognitive-communication, and
swallowing disorders in various health-care settings.

Medical Conditions
that may warrant a speech or
Settings Specialties
swallowing evaluation
✓ Acute Hospitals ✓ Aphasia
✓ Stroke ✓ Rehabilitation Centers ✓ Apraxia of Speech
✓ Skilled Nursing Facilities ✓ Cognitive Communication
✓ Dementia
✓ Assisted Living Facilities ✓ Dysphagia
✓ ALS and MS ✓ Long Term Care ✓ Dysarthria
✓ Brain tumors ✓ Outpatient Rehabilitation ✓ Speech and Language
✓ Cerebral Palsy ✓ Home Health Care ✓ Voice and Fluency

✓ Parkinson’s disease
✓ Myasthenia Gravis
✓ Alzheimer’s disease Education and Training
✓ Huntington’s disease ✓ Master’s Degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders or related field
✓ Traumatic brain injury ✓ Pass national board examination (PRAXIS)
✓ Head and neck cancers ✓ Completion of clinical fellowship year (CFY)

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