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How To Become A Speech-Language Pathologist:

A speech therapist work is to assess, diagnose and provide treatment people with language, speech and swallowing disorder. The therapist starts the treatment depending on the diagnosis of the patient. People often have lots of questions in mind like – <br><br>How to become a speech therapist?<br>What kind of degree do you need for a speech therapist?<br>How speech therapist help people?

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How To Become A Speech-Language Pathologist:

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  1. How To Become A  Speech-Language Pathologist:  Career Advice NOTE: This post has been self-published by the author. Anyone can write on Youth Ki  Awaaz.  A speech therapist work is to assess, diagnose and provide treatment people with language, speech and swallowing disorder. The therapist starts the treatment depending on the diagnosis of the patient. People often have lots of questions in mind like – ● How to become a ​speech therapist​? ● What kind of degree do you need for a speech therapist? ● How speech therapist help people? How to become a speech-language  pathologist?  A speech therapist should have a proper educational qualification. He should pass bachelor and master degree. He should have all the key skills like evaluate, diagnose and treat. Apart from that a therapist also teaches

  2. other communication methods like sign language to uncommunicative or inexpressive patients. What kind of degree needed for a  speech therapist?  ● Eligibility criteria – A student has to take science stream up to twelfth. He needs to pass all the medical subjects physics, chemistry, and maths in the twelfth standard. After that, he needs to take an entrance exam for 90 minutes MCQ. ● Bachelor degree in Audiology and Speech-language pathology(BASLP) – A bachelor degree is of three year period. Bachelor degree coursework includes linguistics, physiology, math, and science. ● Master’s degree – This degree is affiliated with the Academic Accreditation in Audiology and Speech-language Pathology(CAA). This degree teaches you to how to evaluate and treat speech, voice and language disorder. With this master degree, a person also takes a clinical training program. ● Other degrees – There are other degrees also for a speech therapist. It includes MSc in Audiology, Post Graduate Certificate in Audiology Verbal Therapy and Diploma in Hearing Language and Speech. After taking the master degree, a person also takes a supervised clinical experience. And passes a national examination administered by

  3. Educational Testing Service. A speech therapist helps in different kinds of speech and language disorders like articulation, voice disorder, and stuttering or stammering etc. Apart from these disorders a speech-language pathologist also helps people with autism. Benefits of speech therapy for Autism Spectrum  Disorder  Autism​ is a spectrum condition that remains lifelong. It refers to a huge range of challenging conditions like repetitive behavior, a problem with speech and non-verbal conditions, difficulty facing social interactions. Autistic people have a number of speech and language problems and some are mentioned below. But always remember every autistic person is different from the other in one way or the other. Speech and language problems in  autism  ● Repeat words (echolalia) or Bable with words. ● Continuously talk in a singing voice or Sound robotic. ● Difficulty in understanding and expressing words. ● Hyperlexia, some autistic kids read early but are not able to understand what they read. ● Use correct sentence or phrase but show the inexpressive tone of voice.

  4. ● Show tantrums instead of speaking what they need. An early screening and detection of people, help speech therapist in the diagnosis of autism at an early stage. There are different types of speech therapy techniques like Signing or typing, Electronic talkers etc. ​Speech therapy for autism​ improves the autistic individual’s ability to form relationships with other people. The therapy proves to be very beneficial for autism in many ways. Benefits of speech therapy for autism  ● Help in communicating both non-verbally and verbally ● Improve kids understanding of social situations ● Speech therapy improves understanding of idioms ● Helps in articulate production of words ● Development of conversational skills in a social situation ● Improves relationship building ● Easily exchange ideas ● Understand topic of conversation It is very important to diagnose autism at an early stage and which is possible through speech therapy techniques. Research proves that most of the autistic people who receive speech therapy have shown improvement.

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