SLP stands for speech and language pathology.  Children with autism spectrum disorder struggle with appropriate social behaviors, social interactions with others, and communicating with others.   Children with autism have difficulty understand what is meant when communicating.  Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD)  lack effective social communication, especially communicative spontaneity, turn taking, and taking other people's perspective.  Children with ASD often evidence repetitive and/or peculiar language, pronoun reversal, impaired language comprehension, and difficultly with abstract and figurative language.

Speech-language pathologists typically work with these students in either a one-to-one setting or in a small group.  SLPs create goals and objectives on the child’s IEP.  SLPs typically work with the students up to two or three times a week.  Throughout the school year, the SLP will work on improving the goals to best help the child be successful in school, at home, and in the community. 

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