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Organisation of SLT in the country
Age 0 to 18:
SLTs are
usually employed by the regional authority and allocated to hospitals or
primary health care centers. The children are referred to the SLTs either
from the child health care facilities or by their parents.
Some of the SLTs work at service centers for disabled
children, barnhabilite-ringar.
The SLT has independent responsibility for all children
in need of assessment and/or therapy.
An increasing
number of local authorities are employing SLTs to work in
schools and day care centers where they are responsible for the children
with speech- language- and voice problems.
Adults: SLTs are usually
employed by the regional authority and allocated to hospitals or primary
health care centers. The SLTs who provide services for the adult population
can be employed at various clinics, i. e. ENT, rehabilitation etc, and they
all provide therapy on site.
Some of the SLTs work at service centers for disabled
adults, vuxenhabiliteringar.
The SLTs have independent
responsibility for the patients.
Due to the fact that public authorities are obliged to
provide the treatment any citizen may need, free of charge for children and
at a symbolic cost for adults, there is no agreement with social security or
insurance companies about reimbursement of speech and language therapy.
Over the last years few speech and language therapists
(SLT) have established private practises. Some of these SLTs sell their
services to schools, service centres etc, a small amount of the SLTs in
private practise have agreements with the regional authorities. If the SLT
does not have an agreement with the authorities clients/patients who choose
to have therapy under private management will have to pay the full cost
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