Jobs / Healthcare / 31-9099.01
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.
- US jobs
- 109,740 (SOC 31-9099 group, "Healthcare Support Workers, All Other")
- Median wage
- $48,430 a year
- Job family
- Healthcare
Can agents do the work of speech-language pathology assistants?
We read the evidence at the level of the job family, Healthcare:
- Task levelPartialOne benchmark, from early 2025. On Stanford's MedAgentBench, where agents do clinical tasks in a simulated electronic health record, the best recorded model completes 69.7% of tasks (Claude 3.5 Sonnet v2). It has no maintained leaderboard, so newer models are not measured. No benchmark in our collection tests work with patients.
- Project levelPartialOnly adjacent evidence. GDPval includes nurses among its 44 occupations. OpenAI reports that GPT-5.5's deliverables won or tied against professionals' work in 84.9% of comparisons across all occupations. No benchmark in our collection tests clinical work over days, such as managing a patient's care.
Benchmarks for the job family
These cover work in healthcare, not always this occupation's tasks.
- 1846 EloClaude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback) · 23 Sep 2026Unrated
Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- Document clients' progress toward meeting established treatment objectives.
- Implement treatment plans or protocols as directed by speech-language pathologists.
- Collect and compile data to document clients' performance or assess program quality.
- Perform support duties, such as preparing materials, keeping records, maintaining supplies, and scheduling activities.
- Assist speech-language pathologists in the remediation or development of speech and language skills.
- Select or prepare speech-language instructional materials.
- Assist speech-language pathologists in the conduct of client screenings or assessments of language, voice, fluency, articulation, or hearing.
- Prepare charts, graphs, or other visual displays to communicate clients' performance information.
- Test or maintain equipment to ensure correct performance.
- Conduct in-service training sessions, or family and community education programs.
- Assist speech-language pathologists in the conduct of speech-language research projects.
Other job titles for this occupation (24)
Communication Assistant · Speech Assistant · Speech Paraeducator · Speech Pathologist Assistant · Speech Therapy Assistant · Speech-Language Assistant · Speech-Language Pathologist Assistant (SLPA) · Speech-Language Pathologists Assistant (SLPA) · Speech-Language Pathology Assistant (SLPA) · Speech-Language Technician · Anatomic Pathology Assistant · Certified Pathology Assistant · Hearing and Speech Assistant · Language Assistant · Pathology Assistant · School SLPA (School Speech Language Pathologist Assistant) · School SLPA (School Speech-Language Pathologist Assistant) · SLPA (Speech and Language Pathology Assistant) · SLPA (Speech Language Pathologist Assistant) · Speech and Language Assistant · Speech Correction Assistant · Speech Language Assistant · Speech Pathology Assistant · Speech Pathology Intern