About speech therapy:
Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) are professionals educated in the study of human communication, its development, and its disorders. SLPs assess speech, language, cognitive communication, and oral/feeding/swallowing skills to identify types of communication problems (articulation; fluency; voice; receptive and expressive language disorders, etc.) and the best way to treat them....
Audiology entails the diagnosis of hearing problems, fitting of hearing aids and therapy for patients with impaired hearing. Therapy is aimed at improving language, speech and lip-reading abilities as well as listening disabilities and also the treatment of persons with cochlear implants.In speech-language therapy, an SLP will work with a child one-on-one or in a small group to overcome difficulties involved with a specific disorder.