Speech-Language Therapy is a profession in the field of health that deals with human communication, its disorders, and variations; focused on the areas of audition, language, speech, voice, and oral and pharyngeal function, which can be affected by biological, psychological, or social causes that affect people’s communicative welfare and life quality.
In this regard, the speech therapist is constituted as the ideal professional for its approach due to the scientific and deep knowledge of human communication as a field of personal and social development. His / Her actions are intended to identifying population communicative needs and the evaluation, diagnosis, and intervention of the disorders and alterations of communication in fields like education, social welfare, health and corporate; he / she is also a manager of projects and research works that contribute to individual, community and professional development.