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