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.
Speech Therapy

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
Charting

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