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The practice of speech-language pathology may include the following competencies (ASHA, 1996b):
- Provide screening, identification, assessment, diagnosis, treatment, intervention, and follow-up services for people with speech and language disorders
- Provide consultation and counseling, and make referrals when appropriate
- Train and support family members and other communication partners of individuals with speech, voice, language, communication, and swallowing disabilities
- Develop and establish effective augmentative and alternative communication techniques and strategies
- Select, fit, and establish the effective use of appropriate prosthetic/adaptive devices for speaking and swallowing
- Use instrumental technology to diagnose and treat disorders of communication and swallowing
- Provide aural rehabilitation and related counseling services to individuals with hearing loss and to their families
- Collaborate in the assessment of central auditory processing disorders in cases inwhich there is evidence of speech, language, and/or other cognitive-communication disorders
- Conduct pure-tone air conduction hearing screening and screening typmanometry for the purpose of the initial identification and/or referral of individuals with other communication disorders or possible middle ear pathology
- Enhance speech and language proficiency and communication effectiveness, including but not limited to accent reduction, collaboration with teachers of English as a second language, and improvement of voice, performance, and singing
- Train and supervise support personnel
- Develop and manage academic and clinical programs in communication sciences and disorders
- Conduct, disseminate, and apply research in communication sciences and disorders
- Measure outcomes of treatment and conduct continuous evaluation of the effectiveness of practices and programs to improve and maintain quality of services
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