Speech Therapy Services
Evaluations
We offer comprehensive evaluations tailored to assess your unique needs and goals. We'll discuss your concerns and history and tailor the evaluation to your needs. Personalized assessments may cover speech intelligibility, expressive language, receptive language, cognitive function, swallowing or voice. Based on the results of the evaluation, the clinician will determine the frequency of therapy needed. The clinician, patient, and their family will work together to determine a customized therapy plan focused on enhancing your independence and quality of life.
Speech Therapy
Speech intelligibility can sometimes be impacted following a stroke or brain injury. Two common speech disorders include dysarthria and apraxia of speech. Dysarthria is characterized by slurred speech and is due to weakness in the muscles used for speech. Apraxia is characterized by difficulty performing the motor movements needed for speech production. Speech therapy services may involve practicing functional everyday phrases, pacing strategies, exercises to strengthen the muscles for speech production and more.
Language Therapy
Language domains that could be impacted following stroke or brain injury may include auditory comprehension, verbal expression, reading and writing. Whether you want to get back to work, reading your favorite book, or communicate effectively in everyday life, we will work with you to target your individualized needs. Therapy will consist of evidence based techniques such as exercises to assist in word finding, work on grammar and sentence structure, or reading and writing skills. The ultimate goal is to help you communicate more confidently and independently in daily life.
Cognitive Therapy
Cognitive Therapy will focus on addressing difficulties with cognition that may impact communication abilities. This may include difficulties with attention, memory, problem solving, organizing thoughts, executive functioning or other neurological deficits. Therapy services targeting cognition may consist of memory strategies, problem solving tasks, and organization tasks. Therapy will be individualized and unique to you, whether you have been forgetting to take your medications or have been experiencing difficulty paying your bills, therapy services will focus on functional tasks. Additionally, we also work on maintaining current cognitive function and preventing further cognitive decline.
Dysphagia (Swallowing) Therapy
Not many people know that speech pathologists also work with swallowing. Therapy services will vary depending on the cause and type of dysphagia. Therapy may consist of exercises to strengthen the muscles used for swallowing, compensatory strategies, or diet modifications.
Voice Therapy
From vocal fold paralysis to muscle tension dysphonia and more, voice therapy will consist of personalized treatment plans tailored to each individual's needs. Therapy services may consist of increasing loudness, improve vocal quality or breath support, and incorporating exercises to strengthen the vocal cords. We recommend seeing an ENT prior to scheduling a voice evaluation as each voice diagnosis will change the techniques used in therapy.