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
Special tests for swallowing include:
- MBSS (Modified Barium Swallow Study) – assesses patient’s swallowing function by viewing the mouth and throat on an x-ray video as the patient swallows food and liquids
- Pediatric Modified Barium Swallow Study