Speech Therapy

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Woodland Heights Medical Center offers speech pathology services for all ages, from children to seniors.

Speech therapists (also known as speech-language pathologists) evaluate, diagnose and treat patients with a wide variety of conditions that affect oral motor skills, swallowing and speech and language abilities. Speech therapists at Woodland Heights Medical Center work closely with neurologists, ENT (ear, nose and throat) doctors and other specialists to thoroughly evaluate patients and treat a variety of conditions.

The speech therapy team helps patients regain language and thinking skills, teaches alternative ways to communicate and assists with swallowing and hearing difficulties.

Services:

• Clinical feeding evaluations
• Cognitive retraining
• Deep pharyngeal neuromuscular stimulation
• Developmental testing
• McNeill dysphagia therapy
• Modified barium swallowing studies
• Pediatric therapy
• Speech and communication assessment
• Speech and voice treatment
• Swallowing evaluation and treatment
• Vital Stim therapy

Woodland Heights Medical Center offers speech therapy on an inpatient and outpatient basis.

Adult/Senior Care

Are you having a difficult time with:

• Swallowing
• Choking
• Communicating
• Understanding
• Listening
• Problem solving
• Vocalizing
• Speaking
• Memory

The team provides specialized treatment in swallowing disorders, including neuromuscular electrical stimulation and deep pharyngeal neuromuscular stimulation and video fluoroscopic swallowing studies.

Communication, speech, language and swallowing difficulties experienced by adults and seniors can be caused by:

• Alzheimer's disease
• Cancer of the head and neck
• Medications
• Head injury
• Hearing loss
• Laryngectomy
• Neurological diseases (such as Parkinson's or ALS)
• Respiratory illness
• Stroke

Pediatric/Adolescent Care

Is your child having a difficult time with:

• Hearing
• Speaking
• Listening
• Learning
• Language
• Eating

The team of speech-language pathologists provides evaluation and treatment for:

• Aphasia (loss of language)
• Apraxia of speech (coordination of speech)
• Articulation and language delay/disorders
• Autism
• Cleft lip and palate
• Cochlear implants
• Cognitive/linguistic deficits
• Dysarthria (slurred speech)
• Dysfluency (stuttering)
• Feeding and swallowing disorders
• Hearing impairment
• Oral-motor difficulties
• Voice disorders

The team provides specialized treatment in swallowing disorders, including electrical therapy, deep pharyngeal neuromuscular stimulation and video fluoroscopic swallowing studies.

Call (936) 632-2639 for information or to schedule an appointment.