Speech Therapy
Can you or your loved one benefit from speech therapy?
A speech therapist’s (or speech language pathologist’s) role is to provide treatment to help increase a person’s communication ability in writing, reading, speaking, and listening. Communication function is always affected when an individual has memory and other cognitive deficits, such as Dementia. Our speech therapist will create an individualized plan of care for each patient. A critical part of treatment is also caregiver training and family counseling in order to promote positive communicative interactions and increase success with daily living activities (such as meals, getting dressed, social outings, etc).
Signs that you may benefit from speech therapy:
- Difficulty choosing appropriate words, mislabeling common objects, and forgetting names
- Difficulty recalling current events and/or personal history
- Responses in conversations are delayed or inappropriate
- Difficulty with concepts of time or money
- Difficulty following directions, both verbal and written
- Difficulty following sequences for basic daily activities (such as doing laundry or making a sandwich)
- Limited social behaviors or avoidance of social situations
- Difficulty paying attention
- Inability to correctly form the sounds of words
- Difficulty formulating sentences
- Difficulty with comprehension
Areas of treatment:
- Articulation/Phonological disorders
- Autism
- Auditory processing
- Cognitive aspects of communication including attention, memory, sequencing, problem-solving, and executive functioning
- Fluency disorders
- Language delays and disorders
- Social aspects of communication including challenging behavior, ineffective social skills, and lack of communication opportunities
Additional services provided:
- Consultations: parents, family, school personnel, related service providers
- Group Therapy: social skills, stuttering, memory
- Screenings & Evaluations: speech & language, articulation, cognition, pragmatic social skils, autism diagnostic observation
Settings available:
- Office
- In home
- Teletherapy (Via internet)