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Why SLP?
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- · Strong social interaction abilities
- · Enjoy close contact with people
- · Good communicator
- · Love to talk
- · Discipline is really interesting
- · Desire to help others
- · Comfortable with disabilities
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ASHA Big Nine
- · Articulation
- · Swallow
- · Phonology
- · Language
- · Speech
- · Cognition
- · Voice and resonance
- · Traumatic brain injury
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There are two ways to learn SLP.
Requirements and standards
Academic and Clinical
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Can you be an SLPA in MI
- No, There are other states that
- allow it. Go to the government sites of each state and look up the law on SLP.
- Texas, Indiana,
- etc.
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What can SLPAs do, what can't they do?
- cannot administer tests, create a diagnosis or
- the goals and objectives, or the treatment plan
- can perform the treatment.
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Where can you find the preferred practice patterns?
On the ASHA website
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