What does a speech pathologist do?

What does a speech pathologist do? Hear from speech pathologist Ally from our Fulton Health and Wellbeing Centre! 

Wesley Mission Queensland provide speech pathalogy services in your home or at two locations across Brisbane (Chermside and Sinnamon Park), under a variety of funding types, including My Aged Care, Home Care Packages and the NDIS.

Video transcript:

My name's Ali Godbold. I am a speech pathologist at Fulton Health and Wellbeing Centre. Speech pathologists. We are specialists in lots of different areas. We're specialists in swallowing, voice, speech, language, communication and social skills. As a speech pathologist, we provide assessment, diagnosis and treatment of a lot of different conditions, including Parkinson's disease, dementia, motor neurons disease, and people who have had stroke, just to name a few.