Introduction
We help people with many different conditions that affect communication, thinking, and swallowing.
You may be surprised at how many problems speech therapy can help with. Check out this list.
Disorders
Options and Pricing
We offer a variety of options to meet your needs or preferences.
Speech Therapy for you!
Why Speech Therapy?
"I don't have a problem talking. Why do I need speech therapy?"
Communication
Let us help you with speech, language, voice, and fluency (stuttering).
Swallowing
Improve swallowing safety, enjoyment, function, and sensation. We can help with exercises, safety precautions, strategies, and determining the safest yet least restrictive food and liquid consistencies.
Cognition (Thinking)
Get help with mental fog, confusion, attention, memory, problem solving, slow thinking, brain overload, and more!
What diagnoses can we help with?
We can help people with many diagnoses and problems, including (but not limited to):
Aging related difficulties
Aphasia
Apraxia
Cancer involving the head or neck
Chronic cognitive overload and mental fog
Chronic cough
Concussion
Dysphagia (difficulty swallowing)
Dysphonia (voice problems)
Life's difficulties
Long COVID
Lymphedema of the head or neck
Mental fog
Neuromuscular diseases (e.g., Parkinson's Disease, multiple sclerosis, etc.)
Parkinson’s disease
Stroke
Stuttering
Traumatic Brain Injury
Vocal cord dysfunction
What types of disorders can we help with?
We provide personalized assessment and treatment in each of the following areas. Our services emphasize empowering individuals with hope, awareness, knowledge, and skills while providing customized home exercise programs.
Cognition
Training exercises to improve attention, memory, orientation, problem solving, planning and organizing
Cognitive hygiene strategies to minimize cognitive fatigue and prevent cognitive overload while improving and facilitating mental clarity and processing speed
Compensatory strategies
Fluency
Improving coordination and timing with the integration of speech components, including respiration, articulation, language processing, voice dynamics, and cognitive processing
Awareness and control of muscular tension
Awareness and management of emotions
Language Processing
Integration of the four language domains (verbal expression, auditory comprehension, written expression, and reading comprehension)
Integration of language with cognitive information processing
Functional use of language
Compensatory strategies
Motor Speech
Neuromuscular exercises to increase strength, range of motion and speed
Correct placement of speech articulators
Correct sequencing
Phonological awareness
Swallowing
Optimize function in the oral, pharyngeal, and esophageal phases
Neuromuscular exercises
Safe swallowing precautions
Compensatory strategies
Possible effects of fascia or lymphatics
Safest and least restrictive food and liquid consistencies
Voice
Physiological limitations and management
Voice hygiene: healthy habits and practices to support a good voice
Training and conditioning: respiration, voice onset, voice quality, vocal pitch, loudness, and resonance
Reduce excessive muscle tension
Possible effects of fascia or lymphatics
Paradoxical vocal cord dysfunction
Chronic cough
Brain and Body, LLC
Helping along the journey from hope to a better life.
Phone 801-504-6555
Elk Ridge, Utah
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