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Speech-language pathology is the treatment for the improvement or cure of communication disorders, including speech, language, and swallowing disorders. The discipline of speech-language pathology includes professionals trained in the techniques, strategies, and intervention designed to improve or correct communication disorders. Communication disorders include disorders of speech, language, and swallowing. Language disorders include development or acquired conditions that lead to difficulty in understanding or producing language. Speech-language pathologists participated in the screening assessment, and treatment of patients experience one or a combination of medical disorders. Some people with speech sound disorders are often helped by talk therapy, in which they practice repeating specific sounds, words, phrases, and sentences. For individuals experiencing pain voice, a combination of medical and behavioral treatments are often helpful. For stuttering and other fluency disorders, common treatment approaches help individuals to develop methods to both reduce the severity of, and allow the individual to produce more fluent speech.

For all therapies, individuals are taught to cope more effectively with their speech with progressively difficult situations, which begins speaking to one speech pathologist and ends with a group of people.