Overview
Skilled speech pathologists help patients restore communications skills and swallowing ability. They evaluate and treat a range of conditions, including articulation difficulties and language, cognitive, swallowing, voice, and fluency disorders. Special services include:
- Lee Silverman Voice therapy
- Swallowing therapy for adults
- Aphasia therapy
- Pediatric speech therapy
Speech-language pathology may help patients with the following diseases or syndromes:
- aphasia/apraxia/dysarthria
- neurological disorders such as multiple sclerosis
- stroke
- Parkinson's disease
- ALS and head trauma;
- alaryngeal speech
- problems relating from head and neck cancer
- dysphagia
- voice disorders
- stuttering
- articulation disorders
- children's speech and language disorders
- accent reduction; and cognitive disorder
