235Z00000X — Speech-Language Pathologist

Grouping

Speech, Language and Hearing Service Providers

Classification

Speech-Language Pathologist

Specialization

None — this code IS the classification

Section

Individual

Definition

The speech-language pathologist is the professional who engages in clinical services, prevention, advocacy, education, administration, and research in the areas of communication and swallowing across the life span from infancy through geriatrics. Speech-language pathologists address typical and atypical impairments and disorders related to communication and swallowing in the areas of speech sound production, resonance, voice, fluency, language (comprehension and expression), cognition, and feeding and swallowing.

NUCC’s own wording, not a paraphrase.