Speech Therapy

Speech-Language Therapy Team at Harris Regional Hospital offers a comprehensive and individualized program for patients.

• Evaluation and treatment for swallowing, speech, voice, and language comprehension/expression problems resulting from
  • Stroke  
  • Parkinson’s disease
  • Head injury
  • Dementia
  • Head/neck cancer
  • Pediatric speech/language disorders
  • and other medical/neurological conditions
• Perform video-radiographic swallow studies (Modified Barium Swallow Studies) to further assess swallowing problems.

Services include evaluations and therapy for the following disorders:

• Dysphagia (swallowing)
• Dysarthria (slow or slurred speech)
• Apraxia of Speech (motor planning speech issues)
• Voice
  • hoarseness
  • vocal cord dysfunction
  • vocal fatigue
  • loss of voice
  • nerve damage
• Cognitive impairment and memory
  • Traumatic brain injury
  • Dementia
• Articulation/phonological processes
• Pediatric feeding
• Dysfluency (stuttering)
• Social/pragmatic language
• Receptive/expressive language
  • Anomia
  • Aphasia
  • Developmental language disorders