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Speech-Language Pathology Assistants
Assist speech-language pathologists in the assessment and treatment of speech, language, voice, and fluency disorders. Implement speech and language programs or activities as planned and directed by speech-language pathologists. Monitor the use of alternative communication devices and systems.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Document clients' progress toward meeting established treatment objectives.AI could speed this up a lot
- 02Implement treatment plans or protocols as directed by speech-language pathologists.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Collect and compile data to document clients' performance or assess program quality.AI could speed this up a lot
- 04Perform support duties, such as preparing materials, keeping records, maintaining supplies, and scheduling activities.AI could speed this up a lot
- 05Assist speech-language pathologists in the remediation or development of speech and language skills.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Select or prepare speech-language instructional materials.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Assist speech-language pathologists in the conduct of client screenings or assessments of language, voice, fluency, articulation, or hearing.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Prepare charts, graphs, or other visual displays to communicate clients' performance information.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Test or maintain equipment to ensure correct performance.Mostly human for now
- 10Conduct in-service training sessions, or family and community education programs.Mostly human for now
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job lossToo little dataNot enough work use was seen to measure. This does not mean the job is safe from AI.Anthropic, 2026
61%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 12% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 52% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Test or maintain equipment to ensure correct performance.
- Conduct in-service training sessions, or family and community education programs.