In 1998 ASHA's Executive Board (EB) established an Ad Hoc Committee upon Reading and Written Language Disorders to affirm the critical part of the speech-language pathologist (SLP) in literacy and to address the link between language skills and literacy skills.

In 1998 ASHA's Executive Board (EB) established an Ad Hoc Committee upon Reading and Written Language Disorders to affirm the critical part of the speech-language pathologist (SLP) in literacy and to address the link between language skills and literacy skills. The committee is now in the final stages of completing a position statement, technical report, and guidelines pertaining to the "Role and Responsibilities of Speech-Language Pathologists Related to Reading and Writing in Children and Adolescents."

Literacy conversations Planned

The committee has also

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