Speech Therapy

Assisting individuals who have difficulty communicating, including speech, hearing, reading and writing and treats swallowing deficits. These difficulties result from stroke, traumatic brain injury, developmental delays, degenerative disease or many other related diagnoses. One of the most commonly experienced speech disorders is stuttering. Other speech disorders include apraxia and dysarthria. Speech disorders affect the vocal cords, muscles, nerves, and other structures within the throat. Common conditions that can lead to speech disorders are autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), strokes, oral cancer, laryngeal cancer, Huntington’s disease,dementia etc.

Our professional speech therapists work  with individuals at home to achieve the optimum level of function and maximize independence.

What we do:-

• Memory retention: thought process organization and judgment skills to improve memory.
• Teaching strategies to ensure a safe swallowing mechanism, as well as safe oral intake.
• Aid in speech production and production of expression of language.
• Aural rehabilitation for the hearing-impaired.
• Providing education to family about communication problems and strategies to facilitate interaction.
• Providing in-service training to healthcare staff.