Speech Therapy
Increasing ability to speak
Speech therapy is a treatment program designed to help patients regain and increase their ability to communicate through speech. The health care team member who provides this treatment is called a speech language pathologist.Services we offer
Swallow evaluation
- Determines safety of eating/drinking
- Establishes consistencies tolerated
- Precautions to eat/drink safely
Swallow therapy
- To elicit swallow, teach precautions and/or modify diet for safety
Speech/language evaluation
- Assess communication skills after stroke or head injury that results in diminished capacity to communicate or think as before.
Speech/language therapy
- Improves communication (understanding, talking, reading/writing)
Cognitive/communication evaluation
- Assess cognitive skill (capacity to remember, communicate or reason)
Cognitive/communication therapy
- Improve attention, memory, thought organization and/or reasoning skills
