Speech Language Therapy

Speech therapy providers assist children and adults who face challenges in understanding or using language, incorrect speech-sound production, stuttering, voice problems or difficulties with eating or swallowing.

Speech therapy includes treatment and services in the following areas:

• Teaching patients how to make sounds and improve their voices.
• Teaching alternate communication methods, such as sign language, to patients with little or no speech capability.
• Working with patients to increase their ability to read and write correctly.
• Working with patients to develop and strengthen the muscles used to swallow.
• Counseling patients and families on how to cope with communication disorders.
• Pediatric speech therapy.

Visit our Rehabilitation Therapies page for more information.