Have you ever wondered what happens if you need to relearn how to speak or even how to swallow? Speech-language therapists may not be the most glamorous job among healthcare workers - you might not have even heard of them - but they play such an important role to help kids and adults alike. On this episode of Humans of Healthcare, we speak to Tay Chia Yi, speech-language therapist and vice president of the Malaysian Association of Speech-Language & Hearing to learn more about what it takes to work in this field.

Produced by: Lim Sue Ann

Presented by: Lim Sue Ann

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Categories:  managing disease,  wellness,  health policy

Tags:  speech language pathologist,  humansofhealthcare,  allied health,  linguistics,  stroke,  dementia,  cancer,  children's health,