"More than 1 million U.S. children receive school-based treatment for speech and language impairments (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association [ASHA], n.d.)." As a result, the multi-disciplinary team members, when applicable, must be knowledgeable of speech and language disorders and related milestones, able to understand the role of the speech pathologist, and capable of providing support for students in the least restrictive environment. Speech Disorders Speech disorders prevent students from communicating with people in an effective way using sounds; specifically, students with a speech disorder struggle with making the correct sounds to properly pronounce a word (Eske, 2019)." Sometimes, students with speech disorders may omit or invent sounds for one or more of the syllables in a word or the entire word. They tend to do this because they can not make the correct sounds to properly pronounce the word. As a child, I struggled with making the correct sounds to pr...