rehabilitation services
Speech/Language Pathology
Services for patients requiring voice, mouth & throat care
Our speech/language pathologists provide services in a variety of settings, including inpatient, outpatient, transitional-care unit and home care. We treat clients of all ages for a wide variety of conditions.
We treat children who have:
- A stutter
- Prolonged hoarseness, vocal nodules
- Frequent ear infections that result in delayed speech development
- Hearing problems
- Feeding and swallowing problems related to their oral/motor development and/or sensitivity to tastes and textures
We treat adolescents (13–18 years old) who have:
- A voice that does not change to the appropriate pitch during puberty
- Experienced traumatic brain injury and need to relearn memory and cognitive strategies, oral/motor strength and safe-swallowing strategies
- Swallowing problems
- Prolonged hoarseness, breathy voice, vocal nodules
- A stutter
- Persistent tongue-thrust causing orthodontic problems
We treat young adults (19–44) and adults (45–65+) who:
- Have had a stroke (aphasia, dysarthria, dysphagia, cognitive problems)
- Have had a traumatic brain injury
- Are post-laryngectomy (also prior to the operation)
- Are post-oral/pharyngeal cancer
- Are hard of hearing (relearning communication strategies)
- Have Alzheimer's or dementia
- Have wallowing problems
For more information or to make an appointment, please call (209) 536-6920.