Outpatient Speech Therapy

Outpatient Speech Therapy

Outpatient speech therapy at Garnet Health is managed by a team of licensed Speech-Language Pathologists specializing in communication, cognitive, and swallowing disorders. Speech-language pathologists work to prevent, assess, diagnose, and treat speech, language, social communication, cognitive-communication, and swallowing disorders. If you have trouble with your voice, communication, cognition, or swallowing, our speech-language pathologists will help you understand your condition and improve your abilities. Speech-Language Pathology may greatly improve an individual’s quality of life by providing tools and training for communication or cognitive function, or by ensuring the ability to safely eat and drink.

Conditions Treated

• Speech Disorders - A person has difficulty producing speech sounds correctly or fluently, which can be caused by a variety of factors, including stroke, other types of brain injury, or neurological conditions.
• Voice Disorders - When the pitch, loudness, or quality of a person’s voice calls attention to itself rather than to what the speaker is saying. It is also a problem when the speaker experiences pain or discomfort when speaking or singing. There are a variety of causes of a voice problem, which can include paralysis of a vocal fold, misuse of the voice (talking too loudly, improper breath pattern, smoking, etc.), vocal nodules, or polyps.
• Swallowing Disorders - feeding and swallowing difficulties, which may follow an illness, surgery, cancer treatment, stroke, or injury.
• Language Disorders - A person has trouble understanding others (receptive language), or sharing thoughts, ideas, and feelings (expressive language). Language disorders may be spoken or written and may involve the form (phonology, morphology, syntax), content (semantics), and/or use (pragmatics) of language in functional and socially appropriate ways.
• Communication Disorders - Cognitive-communication disorders include problems organizing thoughts, paying attention, remembering, planning, and/or problem-solving, which cause a person difficulty carrying out their daily routine.