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Communication and swallowing difficulties may be as a result of congenital or developmental delays (most often addressed as infants, preschoolers, or children and young adults) or because of acquired neurological disease such as strokes, Parkinson's disease, ALS, traumatic brain injuries, and dementias. Our Speech-Language Pathologists treat the following conditions.
- Alaryngeal: Speech loss of voice function secondary to cancer of the larynx and subsequent removal of part or all of the larynx.
- Aphasia: A receptive and/or expressive language disorder often the result of stroke.
- Apraxia: A motor speech disorder, often the result of brain trauma (stroke, tumor, surgery, etc.) which is characterized by speech programming errors without paralysis or weakness of the speech musculature.
- Cognition: Difficulty with attention, thinking reasoning, remembering, etc. related to acquired brain trauma and/or neurological diseases.
- Delayed or disordered: Language receptive or expressive language disorder noted in infants, preschoolers, and school-aged children as language develops. This may be developmental in nature or related to recognized neurological conditions, (i.e. Cerebral Palsy, various syndromes).
- Dysarthria: A motor speech disorder characterized by weakness and discoordination of the speech musculature often the result of brain trauma, (i.e. stroke, Parkinson’s, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Multiple Sclerosis), or neurological diseases such as Cerebral Palsy.
- Dysphagia: Difficulty with swallowing, most often related to brain trauma, brain disease, or cumulative aging issues.
- Phonology: Articulation disorder of speech system noted in infants, preschoolers, and school-aged children. This may be developmental in nature or secondary to neurological conditions (i.e. Cerebral Palsy), perceptual deficits, or processing deficits (i.e. central auditory processing deficit, learning disability, etc.)
- Stuttering: A disorder of speech fluency and rate.
- Voice: Impairment of voice loudness, pitch, or quality often caused by muscle tension, vocal abuse, trauma to the vocal cords, brain trauma, or neurological diseases.
