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| | Speech therapy Article, Speechtherapy Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | Speech therapy is the corrective or rehabilitative treatment of physical and/or cognitive deficits/ disorders resulting in difficulty with verbal communication. |
 | | This includes both speech (articulation, intonation,rate, intensity) and language (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics,pragmatics, both receptive and expressive language, including reading and writing). |
 | | Speech and language therapists (SLTs) or speech-language pathologists (SLPs) provide a wide range of services for all ages, inearly intervention (ages 0-3 years old), preschool, primary and secondary schooling, home care, and hospitals, rehabilitationcenters, and nursing homes. |
| www.anoca.org /language/difficulty/speech_therapy.html (246 words) |
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