Speech-language impairment is a Department of Education, Training and Employment category for identifying students requiring significant educational adjustments as a result of having a severe ongoing primary spoken communication disorder.
Students with speech-language impairment, like all students, vary in abilities and needs. They will all, however, experience significant difficulties in some or all of the following areas:
Students require effective spoken communication skills to participate in education programs and achieve at school. Students with mild to moderate difficulties in any of the above areas do not meet the criteria for the department's disability category of speech-language impairment but are considered to be a student with special needs in communication and may access other school-based support including teacher aide assistance and speech-language therapy services (Department of Education and Training, 2010).
This page was last reviewed on 16 Jul 2012
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