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The document outlines the roles and responsibilities of speech-language pathologists across various settings, including education, healthcare, private practice, and government agencies. It details their involvement in prevention, assessment, intervention, and advocacy, emphasizing the importance of collaboration with families and other professionals. Additionally, it highlights the need for ongoing education and research to improve communication development and service delivery for children with speech and language difficulties.

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Roles_and_Responsibilities_of_a_Speech-Language_Pathologist

The document outlines the roles and responsibilities of speech-language pathologists across various settings, including education, healthcare, private practice, and government agencies. It details their involvement in prevention, assessment, intervention, and advocacy, emphasizing the importance of collaboration with families and other professionals. Additionally, it highlights the need for ongoing education and research to improve communication development and service delivery for children with speech and language difficulties.

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Roles and Responsibilities of a

Speech-Language Pathologist
EDUCATION

Early intervention, preschool, k-12 schools

Colleges and Universities

HEALTH CARE

Hospitals

Residential health care facilities

Nonresidential health care facilities

PRIVATE PRACTICE
CORPORATE SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY
LOCAL, STATE & FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES

Public health departments

Uniformed services

EDUCATION – EARLY INTERVENTION

birth to 3 yrs

1. PREVENTION

Reduce the risk or mitigate the effects of risk factors on a child’s development

1. Primary prevention – avoid the onset of communication problems


(Mass/public education)

2. Secondary Prevention – mitigate or eliminate the effects of a disorder


(Barangay health workers, teachers)

3. Tertiary prevention – by providing early intervention services, thereby


preventing future difficulties (Therapy strategies)
remediate an existing problem

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SCREENING: identifying children at risk (checklist)

EVALUATION: determine a child’s initial and continuing eligibility for early


intervention services (more thorough)

ASSESSMENT: describing a child’s needs; the family’s concerns, priorities,


and resources related to the development of the child; the nature and extent of
the early intervention services require to meet the needs of the child

after gathering the child’s information and assessment:

PLANNING:

members of the early intervention team develop a plan for services and
supports that includes intervention

IMPLEMENTING:

location;

service delivery model – traditional, one-to-one, direct clinical model (Pull-


out) to more indirect collaborative approaches

Intervention approaches and strategies – child’s and family’s functional


and meaningful routines and experiences dispersed throughout the day

MONITORING INTERVENTION:

validate the conclusions from the initial evaluation/assessment

develop a record of progress over time

determine whether and how to modify or revise intervention plans

CONSULTATION W AND EDUC OF TEAM

Help a family enhance their child’s communication development through


consultation and education

Consult directly with the family and professional to monitor progress, and
participate in development or revision of intervention plans

SERVICE COORDINATION

Active, ongoing process that assists and enables families to access


services and ensures their rights and procedural safeguards

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ADVOCACY

Working with other professionals

Writing and editing textbooks, articles for consumer use and reference,
and other resource material to provide up-to-date and accurate

Involvement in local, and national efforts to influence public policy;

and development and dissemination of information to families, health care


professionals, and other involved in the care of young children

AWARENESS AND ADVANCEMENT OF KNOWLEDGE BASE


Continues experimental and clinical research

identification of risk factors

clarification of the interactions between risk and resilience factors that affect
the likelihood or severity of early communication difficulties

development and refinement of identification methods to increase the


accuracy of detecting children in need of services

development and refinement of interventions to prevent and treat


developmental communication difficulties

scientifically sound studies to demonstrate the efficacy and effectiveness of


current intervention approaches and collaborative models of service delivery

EDUCATION – SCHOOLS
Critical roles

Working across all levels

Serving a range of disorders

Ensuring educational relevance

Providing unique contributions

Range of Responsibilities

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Prevention

Assessment

Intervention

Program design

Data collection and analysis

Compliance

Collaboration

With other school professionals

With universities

Within the community

With families

With students

Leadership

Advocacy

Supervision and mentorship

Professional development

Parent training

Research

HEALTHCARE

Hospitals

Residential health care facilities

Nonresidential health care facilities

PRIVATE PRACTICE

Therapist

TELEPRACTICE

Technical skills

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Communication skills client handling

Maintaining security of data and confidentiality

clients and their families access to

CORPORATE

address vocal misuse

presentation skills

accent modification

professional diction and grammar

interviewing skills

business writing and business communication etiquette

train customer service representatives towork with clients who have hearing
loss

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES

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