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Speech Therapy

There are many reasons people need speech therapy, such as traumatic brain injuries, stroke, Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, Parkinson’s disease, and developmental delays, learning disabilities and autism. Other causes can be genetic disorders, birth defects, and face or head abnormalities that adversely effect speech.

People who need speech therapy include children with learning disabilities, hearing impairment, difficulties in producing sounds, stammering, dyslexia, voice disorders, cleft palettes and physical disabilities. Adults who have had strokes, brain trauma, Huntington’s disease, cancer of the head, neck or throat, hearing impairment, learning or physical disabilities and even transsexual women are all candidates for speech therapy.

There are separate standardized speech therapy assessment tools administered for infants, children, adolescents and adults. Assessments primarily examine the form, content, understanding and use of language, as well as articulation, and phonology. Oral motor and swallowing assessments often require specialized training which includes the use of bedside examination.

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