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Speech Therapy

  • A senior doctor is smiling wide as he shakes the hand of a senior man.
  • A senior woman is sitting in a chair talking. To her left a female therapist is also talking and has her right arm placed gently on the woman's left shoulder and her left hand gently grasping the older woman's right hand as they work on speech therapy skills.
  • A smiling senior woman is sitting in a chair looking up at a younger woman who is smiling down at her. The younger woman has her left arm placed gently on the older woman's shoulder and her right hand on her right shoulder.

Speech Therapy

The Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP) addresses communication, cognitive, and swallowing deficits. These deficits result from a variety of factors/diseases including stroke, brain injury, Parkinson’s Disease, other neurogenic disorders, and dementia. The SLP is responsible for assessment, treatment, and education/training for:

  • Aphasia (the loss of ability to understand or express speech, caused by brain damage)
  • Apraxia (disorder that affects the ability to form words. Unable to or have difficulties saying what you want to say correctly and consistently. It is not due to weakness or paralysis, but due to the inability to motor plan/sequence)
  • Cognitive Deficits: memory, orientation, attention, reasoning, problem-solving, executive function, money management, medication management
  • Dysarthria (decreased articulatory precision of speech, unclear speech)
  • Dysphagia (difficulty or discomfort swallowing)

 

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