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