Speech Therapy is a health profession that focuses on human communication, its disorders and variations. It is specialized in the areas of hearing, language, speech, voice and oral-pharyngeal function, which may be affected by biological, psychological or social causes that affect the communicative well-being of people and their quality of life.
The speech therapist is a suitable professional for this approach due to his scientific and deep knowledge of human communication as a field of personal and social development. His actions are oriented to identify the population communicative needs, evaluation, diagnosis and intervention of disorders and alterations of communication in the educational, social welfare, health and business sectors. The speech therapist is a project and research manager that contributes to the development of the individual, communities and his profession.