Speech and language jobs that go beyond helping kids speak

Speech and language jobs that go beyond helping kids speak

There is a common misconception that speech and language jobs are all about teaching children how to speak.  “At weddings, people would come up to me and say, ‘oh, my child has a lisp’ or ‘my child has a stammer.’ The thing is, that’s not what I focus on,” says Perah Memon, a speech and language therapist in England’s National Health Service (NHS). “The role is much broader than what people think.” According to the NHS, those in speech and langu…