The Speech-Language Pathologist specialty is generally very female-friendly with a large majority (96%) of providers reporting as female compared to only 3% reporting as male. People living in New York, Texas, Florida, California, and Pennsylvania enjoy living in one of the 5 most popular states/territories where Speech-Language Pathologist providers practice. In all, there are 121,933 registered Speech-Language Pathologist providers in the United States with over 13,369 of those located in New York alone while around 8,504 chose to practice in Texas.
Speech-Language Pathologist providers have been assigned the 235Z00000X taxonomy code in the NPI registry, which is a Level II Classification. Click here for more information about medical specialty types.
Overall, Speech-Language Pathologist specialists practice in 58 different states/territories.
The speech-language pathologist is the professional who engages in clinical services, prevention, advocacy, education, administration, and research in the areas of communication and swallowing across the life span from infancy through geriatrics. Speech-language pathologists address typical and atypical impairments and disorders related to communication and swallowing in the areas of speech sound production, resonance, voice, fluency, language (comprehension and expression), cognition, and feeding and swallowing.