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Speech language therapy (4th of 4)

Speech language therapy

Therapist Alison Zani helps Dunedin man Warren Palmer learn to speak again after he suffered a severe stroke in 2008. Speech language therapists assist people with communication and swallowing problems.

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Allison Kirkman, 'Health practitioners - Health-care practice', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/28317/speech-language-therapy (accessed 5 June 2023)

Story by Allison Kirkman, published 5 May 2011, reviewed & revised 23 Apr 2018