What is a speech therapist?

What is a speech therapist?

Charles Sophy (Private Practice in Adult, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry) gives expert video advice on: What is a "speech disorder"?; How do I know if my child has a speech disorder?; What is a speech therapist?

A speech therapist will partake in the planning process and the evaluation process of a speech disorder. She will put together a plan, after it is known exactly where the speech deficits are, to be able to have that child practice and to have that child become successful in articulation of their words and their thoughts. You should consider getting a speech therapist for your child after you have diagnosed the speech issue that has either been done by that therapist in the evaluation process, or by another person; and then that's part of the treatment - planning a therapist.