General
Begin with the person’s priorities, languages, participation contexts, and established goals.
Explore area →AAC
Augmentative and alternative communication includes aided systems such as devices and boards and unaided modes such as gesture and sign.
Explore area →Apraxia / Motor Speech
Motor speech assessment examines the planning, programming, and execution of speech movements.
Explore area →Articulation
Articulation addresses production of speech sounds; assessment identifies sounds, positions, contexts, intelligibility, and whether patterns reflect the person’s language or dialect.
Explore area →Dysphagia / Swallowing
Dysphagia concerns swallowing function and can involve medical and nutritional risk.
Explore area →Feeding
Feeding work addresses participation in meals, food exploration, oral feeding skills, and functional communication within the person’s medical, sensory, cultural, and family context.
Explore area →Fluency
Fluency assessment includes speech characteristics and the speaker’s experience of talking: effort, tension, avoidance, confidence, and participation.
Explore area →Gestalt Language Processing (GLP)
Some speakers use repeated phrases or echolalia in meaningful ways.
Explore area →Language (Receptive & Expressive)
Receptive language supports understanding of spoken information; expressive language supports communicating ideas, needs, and narratives.
Explore area →Social Communication / Pragmatics
Social communication includes using language and other modes with partners in real contexts.
Explore area →Voice
Voice work examines quality, pitch, loudness, effort, and the way voice affects daily participation.
Explore area →These resources support clinical judgment. Adapt goals, strategies, and documentation to the person, setting, and available evidence.