This free online course explains how speech therapists treat speech-related disorders to help patients speak clearly. This short course presents you with an ideal opportunity to learn about speech therapy as a profession. We explain how to identify various speech disorders and their causes. Our primary emphasis is on speech-related problems faced by children and we provide various strategies to help children overcome disabilities to speak more clearly. The course also shows you how to boost children’s confidence by helping them hone their public speaking skills.
| College | Alison |
| Course ID | 192139 |
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 3-4 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | In This Free Course, You Will Learn How To • Categorize the important speech exercises according to different age groups • Describe why speech therapy is critical • Identify the causes of various speech problems • Outline various practices related to public speaking • Explain the two most commonly occurring fluency-related problems • Discuss the two main assessment methods used by speech-language pathologists (SLPs) • Indicate some of the most typical problems related to speech • Explain how SLPs work in different ways to solve speech-related problems |
| Course Code | 998 |

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