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Printable/Shareable-PDF: Nice Speech Lady – SLP Scope of Practice Reference Guide

 

Two versions are available in this resource:

• A simple listing of terms.
• A listing, with explanations.

Suggestions for use:

• Print out a desired version of this resource. Ask patients/families at initial evaluations to circle areas of concern during the paperwork/intake process.
• Print out a desired version of this resource, and place in a frame on the treatment wall. Ask families at initial evaluations to use a dry erase marker for circling/marking areas of concern.

 

Nice Speech Lady: SLP SCOPE OF PRACTICE LIST

A Speech Therapy Evaluation may be needed due to any difficulties with:

1. Speech articulation
2. Language
   • Understanding
   • Producing

3. Social communication
   • Understanding
   • Showing

4. Cognition
   • Remembering
   • Planning, prioritizing, negotiating, taking care of needs through thinking

5. Difficulties with voicing
6. Difficulties with swallowing
   • Mouth phase
   • Throat phase
   • Behaviors

7. Difficulties in any related areas
8. Combinations of these areas
9. Need for results and recommendations, only

SLPs are not: psychologists, psychiatrists, physical therapists, occupational therapists, MDs, or social workers/counselors

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Nice Speech Lady: SLP SCOPE OF PRACTICE LIST — Explanations

Reasons for Speech Therapy:

1. Difficulties with speech articulation, such as having a pattern of sounds in error or limited sound productions.
2. Difficulties with language/using words for expressing ideas, thoughts and needs.
   • Understanding others’ speech
   • Producing words as expected

3. Difficulties with social communication
   • Understanding others’ non-verbal expressions
   • Showing social communication/non-verbal expressions toward others

4. Difficulties with cognition
   • Remembering
   • In planning, prioritizing, negotiating, taking care of needs through thinking — due to memory challenges
   • Having difficulty communicating due to memory impairment

5. Difficulties with voicing
6. Difficulties with swallowing
   • Mouth phase
   • Throat phase
   • Behaviors

7. Difficulties, for any other reason – in an area of communication, cognition or swallowing, for any other reason (such as: improving intelligibility of a non-native language, or for business/employment purposes.
8. Any combination of these areas.
9. Need for SLP evaluation results and recommendations, only.

SLPs are not: psychologists, psychiatrists, physical therapists, occupational therapists, MDs, or social workers/counselors

 

References

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. (2004). Preferred Practice Patterns for the Profession of Speech-Language Pathology [Preferred Practice Patterns]. Available from www.asha.org/policy/. doi:10.1044/policy.PP2004-00191

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (2016). Scope of Practice in Speech-Language Pathology, Ad Hoc Committee On The Scope Of Practice In Speech-Language Pathology. https://www.asha.org/policy/sp2016-00343/

Oslund, Mandie, “Tips to Better Communicate With Patients,” (2017) ASHA WIRE, Leader Live, June 15, 2017.

 

 

Wilson Nice, SLP, is the owner of Nice Speech Lady, a medical SLP platform for functional, practical and evidence-based SLP clinical resources.

Nice has been publishing complimentary tools for SLPs since February of 2018.

She is a hybrid outpatient clinic owner — serving adults and children, in Socorro, New Mexico.

 

 

 

 

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