Speech Pathology

Our speech therapist will work with our medical staff to develop an individualized plan of care, customized to your needs.

• Speech therapists duties include:
  • Assist residents with speech articulation and fluency difficulty
  • Assist with cognitive-communicative impairments
    • Attention and memory deficits
    • Abstract reasoning
    • Problem solving deficits
  • Assist with oral motor and swallowing disorders
  • Residents may need speech pathology because of:
    • Brain injury
    • Stroke
    • Seizure
    • Progressive diseases
    • Cancer
    • Injury
• Individualized plan of care
  • Tailored to patient’s need
  • Educate patients, families and caregivers on:
    • Impairments
    • Disease processes
    • Compensatory strategies
• Tools to diagnose and guide treatment
  • Physical examination
  • Instrumental technology
  • Standardized cognitive-linguistic and language tests