Speech Therapy
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. Woodland Heights Medical Center's speech therapists 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, learn alternative ways to communicate and assists with swallowing and hearing difficulties.
Our services:
- Clinical feeding evaluations
- Cognitive retraining
- Developmental testing
- Modified barium swallowing studies
- Pediatric therapy
- Speech and communication assessment
- Speech and voice treatment
- Swallowing evaluation and treatment
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
Our 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
Our 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
Our 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.