Adult Speech Therapy

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FYZICAL's adult Speech-Language Pathologists provide comprehensive evaluation and treatment for a variety of speech, language, neurological disorders and other elective services. Our therapy provides a focus on independence and function communication skills. Therapy is individualized to each patient’s unique communication or swallowing needs and include:

Speech Disorders

  • Apraxia of speech (uncoordinated movements of body parts used to create sounds, trouble sequencing sounds together
  • Dysarthria (slurred speech and weak facial muscles)
  • Stuttering

Voice Disorders

  • Variety of vocal fold dysfunctions (polyps, nodules, vocal fold paralysis, dysphonia)
  • Transgender voice therapy (considered an elective service)

Language Disorders

  • Aphasia
    • Expressive forms (ability to communicate expressively)
    • Receptive forms (ability to comprehend language)

Medical/Cognitive Conditions

  • Dementia (memory strategies and activities of daily living)
  • Laryngeal/oral cancer (compensatory strategies for communication)
  • Right Hemisphere Brain Injury
  • Traumatic Brain Injury
  • Other Medical Conditions (Parkinson’s Disease, Huntington’s Disease)

Alternative Forms of Communication

  • Variety of alternative forms of communication (low tech. picture systems (picture exchange) high tech (iPad)

Activities of Daily Living

  • Memory strategies
  • Compensatory strategies

Safe Swallow Strategies

  • NOTE: FYZICAL does NOT provide comprehensive swallow evaluations and recommendations for diet
  • We DO read recommendations, follow physician orders and provide recommendations for strategies that will assist in a safe swallow