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Speech Therapy is the corrective or rehabilitative treatment of physical and/or cognitive deficits/disorders resulting in difficulty with communication.
Who benefits from Speech Therapy?
A wide variety of people can benefit from speech therapy, including, but not limited to those with:
- Loss of communication ability due to stroke
- Decreased cognitive status – short or long term memory loss
- Swallowing difficulties
- Facial weakness/droop
- Laryngectomy
- Tracheostomies
- Feeding tubes
- Drooling
- Significant coughing after meals
- Slurred speech
- Diagnosis of dehydration
- Respiratory disorders
Treatments may consist of:
- Speech/hearing evaluation – aphasia treatment
- Exercises/activities to enhance: speech, articulation, fluency, memory/re-call, safety with sequencing
- Hearing treatment – prevention, restoration, compensation
- Patient/family training with compensatory techniques
- Appropriate fitting/use of adaptive devices for speaking/communication
- Swallowing evaluation and treatment of aphagia
- Neurobehavioral treatment – reasoning skills
- Vital Stim – (where available) for muscle re-education(after swallow study video reviewed)
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