From time to time, people contact ALP asking if we are speech therapists or speech/language pathologists. The simple answer is that we are not.
However, our treatments overlap this field in specific ways. To more fully explain, let’s take a look at speech and language disorders.
With the average teenager sending about 6 texts per waking hour, it is becoming the most common form of communication, and many fear that it is destroying spelling skills. However, recent research shows that “textese” doesn’t affect traditional spelling in students with high phonological awareness. It is this skill that allows texters to create and decode abbreviations like gr8, 4evr, and 2moro…