Talk:Speech and language pathology

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[edit] Separate therapist/pathologist

I think there should be a separate speech therapist page. It is a profession and I think they are entitled to their own page. reference to this page should be made clear however, as they do practice speech and language pathology. Veterinary science has a separate veterinarian page, so I think speech pathologists should have one too. There are many pages linking to speech therapist, and when users click on it they want to know what one is, not what this type of health care focuses on Bouncingmolar 17:47, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Agreed!

--Frogamigo 15:41, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

So can a UK qualified SLT practice in USA? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.244.133.26 (talk) 13:26, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Only if they have a Master's and meet state/ASHA criteria in terms of number of hours worked in each area, etc. More details on the RCSLT/ASHA mutual agreement on ASHA's website. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.202.182.158 (talk) 23:54, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] external lists

SLP1, removed some external links without reason. After reverting, SLP1 did it again saying the externals were not national. SLP1 forgot the "California Speech Language Hearing Lets talk about what to clean up. I have never seen 'national' used as a reason if good information exists. How about international? Anyway, let's 'discuss' changes. (I suspect the SLP1 is in California? and is part of CSLHA, and doesn't like one of the links removed?). Maybe a thorough revamping of the external list is in order, rather than selective removals. Larynxdude (talk) 12:04, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi Larynxdude. Thanks for discussing here. I don't know if you know about the guidelines for external links here WP:EL? In short the links need to be kept to a minimum and need to be relevant and informative. You have reverted several spam links, links to commercial websites which are to be avoided according to WP:ELNO. [1],[2][3]

You have also reincluded two other websites including National Center for Voice and Speech's official website and Network for Speech and Language Therapists which do not on first glance to be in commercial in nature, but I am not clear that their inclusion is justified. Do these websites provide any more relevant or meaningful content than the hundreds of similar ones out there? Since we can't include the hundreds, why would we include these two? Note that per WP:V you need to justify their inclusion "The burden of evidence lies with the editor who adds or restores material." I believe it is better to stick to links to national SLP associations: leaving California in was a mistake on my part, and I should point out that theorizing about my motives for leaving it in is contrary to Wikipedia's guidelines on assuming good faith and recommend you avoid these types of comment in future. In any case, a quick check of my userpage would show I live nowhere near California!! If you want these two links to be replace then feel free to state your case here. Slp1 (talk) 16:37, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi SLP1. I just thought it was interesting that you removed just a couple when there were many to remove; sorry for the California comment. So thank you for removing the bulk as many did not need to be there. I have re-added ncvs.org and added NIDCD. I think the www.ncvs.org one should be there as they have stuff that no one else has and send students/interns/residence there all of the time. Most of the hundreds of websites out there just copy their stuff from ASHA, NCVS, and NIDCD anyway. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Larynxdude (talk • contribs) 00:39, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

See your talkpage but I disagree from multiple perspectives, including the fact that you seem to have a very US-centric viewpoint when this is a global encyclopedia. You also make some very broad accusations of plagiarism which need to be justified and proved. --Slp1 (talk) 00:54, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi SLP1. Yes, I am US-centric (I live in the US). So, on my last edit that you are commenting on, I put all the external links (many non-US organizations) in alphabetical order to draw attention to the US links. This is unlike just randomly trashing 3 external links before being called on it and leaving a California based one just above the three trashed? Sorry for my US-centric mindset... Larynxdude (talk) 15:02, 28 May 2008 (UTC)