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Speech language therapy

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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, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/28317/speech-language-therapy (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Allison Kirkman, published 29 March 2011, updated 28 April 2026.