“…Gerontologic SLP explains the developmental conditions of changes in the quality of communication functions in people who are elderly, physiologically ageing, or with co-occurring neuro-______________ degenerative disorders, e. g. in Parkinson's disease or Alzheimer's disease, 14 and oncological SLP focuses on the diagnosis and SLP therapy of people who reveal primitive and secondary dysfunctions in the course of a cancer and/or as a result of its treatment. 15 Due to a small percentage of practising speech-language pathologists who treat people with psychogenic speech disorders (5-10%), i.e. stuttering, schizophasia, selective mutism, as well as limited cooperation of speech-language pathologists with physiotherapists and an increasing percentage of bi-or multilingual children, Z. Tarkowski additionally postulates the creation of new SLP specialisations, namely: psychological SLP, physiological SLP and bilingual SLP, which would basically constitute a compilation of speech-language pathological, linguistic, psychological and medical knowledge, and would be conducted in the form of postgraduate education.…”