Speech Therapy is the Specialty responsible for the prevention, evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of human communication disorders.

  

Some of the situations in which you should look for a Speech Therapist are:

• delay in language development

• difficulties in reading and writing

• articulation disorders

• dysfluency (stuttering)

• communication difficulties in autism

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Frequently associated with disturbances in children's communication, monitoring by a speech therapist may also be necessary at    adult age, in cases such as:​

• aphasia (loss of language ability)

• difficulty swallowing after stroke or traumatic brain injury

• degenerative diseases of the central nervous system (such as Parkinson's disease and other dementias).