What is the difference between a speech therapist and a Defectologist?

The defectologist can begin work with children of one-year-old age, and the speech therapist starts to study with kids from three years old. Speech therapist corrects and develops speech, puts sounds and pronunciation, while the defectologist is engaged in the lag in the development of the child, caused by various disorders, and helps the kid to know the world.

So, for example, the speech therapist will not teach the child color, he will pronounce their names, striving for correct pronunciation, while the defectologist's task is to familiarize the baby with the flowers and learn the name of each of them. That is, in fact, a defectologist is a broad-profile specialist, while a speech therapist is only responsible for correcting speech disorders.

1.Defectologist works with problem and sick children, the speech therapist deals exclusively with healthy children.

2.Defektolog starts to study with one-year-olds, the speech therapist begins to work with children when they reach three years.

3.Defectologist - a specialist in a wide profile, speech therapist - a narrow-profile specialist.