| Summary: | This research was motivated by the growing demand for speechpathologists to act as forensic experts, particularly in cases of speaker comparison. A literature search discovers very little about speech-language pathologists working as forensic experts. Thus, the search was widened to include the science of Speech-Language Pathology, the national curricula for Bachelor degrees in Speech-Language Pathology and the work of forensic experts in the area of speaker comparison. The results showed that human communication is one of the objects of study of the speech-language pathologist, and that work in forensic speaker comparison uses parameters standardly analyzed by speech-language pathologists and that forensic expertise in this area is enriched through multidisciplinary. Hence, it follows that the inclusion of speech-language pathologists in multidisciplinary teams working on forensic speaker comparison is amply justifiable.
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