Parkview’s speech-language pathology (also known as speech therapy) team works with people with various speech, language and communication disorders, and oral motor problems that cause eating and swallowing difficulties. This may include people who cannot make speech sounds or cannot make them clearly; have speech rhythm and fluency problems, such as stuttering; have voice quality problems, such as an inappropriate pitch or harsh voice; have problems understanding and producing language; have cognitive communication problems, such as attention, memory and problem-solving disorders; or have oral motor problems that cause eating and swallowing difficulties.
Speech-language pathologists provide evaluation and treatment of pediatric and adult patients for the following issues:
- Cognitive rehabilitation
- Expressive and receptive language deficits
- Feeding disorders
- Hearing impaired (aural rehabilitation)
- Motor-speech disorders (verbal apraxia, dysarthria, etc.)
- Speech, language and developmental delays
- Stuttering/cluttering (fluency disorders)
- Swallowing disorders (dysphagia)
- Voice disorders
