Presbyterian’s speech and language therapists help patients regain or improve their communication skills, speech production, thinking abilities, voice and swallowing. These impairments may be a result of a developmental delay, brain injury, concussion, neurological disease, cancer, or the effects of an illness or other injury. This program requires a physician referral. Once referred into the program, your speech language therapist will develop a personalized treatment plan and home program. Our team can assess and treat a variety of speech-related disorders.
Services / Conditions Treated
Some common conditions treated by our speech and language therapy team include:
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Articulation difficulties (or problems making clear speech sounds)
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Childhood eating difficulties, such as food selectivity or refusal (“picky eater”), or problems with gagging, choking or vomiting
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Chronic cough
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Chronic hoarseness
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Cleft lip and cleft palate in children
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Cognitive deficits such as poor attention, memory, awareness and problem-solving issues
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Expressive language difficulties (difficulty speaking or writing)
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Feeding difficulties
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Pragmatic difficulties (problems using language in social situations)
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Receptive language difficulties (difficulty listening, reading or visual processing difficulties)
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Swallowing difficulties
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Word-finding difficulties
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Vocal cord dysfunction
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Voice disorders (quality, pitch, loudness, resonance)
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Pragmatics
Treatments/Tests Performed
Some common treatments and tests performed by our speech and language therapy team include:
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Cleft lip and cleft palate treatment in children
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Video fluoroscopic swallowing studies (an x-ray study for swallowing assessment)