Service Delivery Areas

This list of practice areas and the bulleted examples are not comprehensive for the field of speech language pathology. Current areas of practice, such as literacy, have continued to evolve, whereas other new areas of practice are emerging.

Speech Production

Motor Planning and Execution
Articulation
Phonology

Language

Phonology
Morphology
Syntax
Semantics
Pragmatics (language use and social aspects of communication)
Prelinguistic communication (e.g., joint attention, intentionality, communicative signaling)
Paralinguistic communication (e.g., gestures, signs, body language)
Literacy (reading, writing, spelling)

Cognition

Attention
Memory
Problem solving
Executive functioning

Feeding and Swallowing

Oral phase
Pharyngeal phase
Esophageal phase
Atypical eating (e.g., food selectivity/refusal, negative physiologic response)

Voice

Preventive vocal hygiene
Professional voice use

Advocacy and Outreach

Fluency

Stuttering
Cluttering