RESPONSIBLE TO: SUPERVISING NURSE

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Assists the physician in evaluating and treating children and adults with speech, language and swallowing.

2. Helps people develop effective communication skills

1. Helps people with articulation disorders and provide treatment to learn proper production of speech sounds.
2. Helps people who stutter to speak more fluently.

5. Assists people with voice disorders to improve disorders.

6. Assists people who have difficulty swallowing as a result of illness, surgery,

stroke or injury.

1. Helps people with Aphasia to relearn speech and language skills.
2. Evaluates, selects, and develops augmentative and alternative communication systems (such as voice synthesizing computers and communication boards) for people with severe speech problems.
3. Enhances communication effectiveness...