Speech/Language Therapy

Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) a Maria Parham are professionally trained to prevent, screen, identify, assess, diagnoses, refer, provide intervention for and counsel persons with, or who are at risk for articulation, fluency, voice, language, communication, swallowing, and related disabilities.

Our Speech-Language Pathologists provide services for a multitude of disorders, including, but not limited to the following:

• Voice therapy, from misuse or abuse, injury or vocal cord polyps or nodules
• Speaking valves for tracheotomies and ventilator patients who are unable to use their voice
• Alternative and augmentative communication assessment and remediation to establish communication systems
• Swallowing and feeding disorders assessments such as Clinical Swallow evaluation, Modified Barium Swallow Study and Fiberoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallow
• Swallowing treatment including training of compensatory swallowing techniques and swallowing exercises, neuromuscular electrical stimulation and intraoral thermal stimulation
• Developmental delays resulting from autism, head injuries and birth defects
• Motor speech disorders
• Cognitive/communication disorders resulting from CVA, head injury, TIA, tumor, cancer, and dementia