Treatment focuses on:
- Communication retraining for aphasia, dysarthria, dysphonia or head/neck trauma
- Cognitive retraining
- Augmentative communication devices
- Trach weaning protocols/Passy–Muir speaking valves
- Swallow/dysphagia evaluation and treatment
- Instrumental swallow assessment (videofluoroscopy, FEES, FEEST)
- Post-laryngectomy communication options
Who Benefits From Speech Therapy? Patients with:
- Slurred speech following a stroke
- Loss of swallowing ability
- Delay or regression in language development
- Impaired memory and thinking skills
- Inability to form words after a traumatic brain injury
- Parkinson’s who cough frequently with eating or drinking