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What Is a Speech-Language Pathologist? S peech and language are vital parts of our everyday lives. We can hardly go a full day without speaking to another human being. This is true around the world, in all languages and countries. Communication and language are crucial to inter- and intrapersonal relations and comprise a core form of expression. Humans express thoughts, feelings, and ideas orally to one another through a series of complex movements that form a basic tone created by voice into specif- ic, decodable sounds. These specific decodable sounds are known as language. Spoken language is produced by precisely coordinated mus- cle actions, using various parts of the body, including the head, the neck, the mouth, the tongue, the chest, and even the

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