Speech Therapy

When it comes to speech therapy, it’s important to remember that a difference is made one word at a time. Baptist South’s outpatient speech therapy services include evaluations and therapy for pediatrics and adults in the following areas:

• Communication/cognitive impairments as a result of stroke, brain injury or neurological disease including: 

  • Understanding and using language
  • Memory, thought organization and reasoning
  • Word finding
  • Social communication
  • Oral-motor therapy, including tongue thrust (lisp)
  • Accent reduction
  • Articulation (speech-sound production)
  • Apraxia of speech
  • Literacy difficulties, including phonological awareness
  • Cleft lip/palate (resonance)
  • Assistive/augmentative communication
  • Fluency (stuttering)
  • Autism spectrum disorders

• Language disorders, including difficulty with:

  • Speaking with appropriate grammar
  • Social language (pragmatics)
  • Auditory processing and memory
  • Vocabulary 
  • Comprehension (understanding) of spoken and/or written language

• Other services:  

  • Swallowing therapy, including Vital Stim (neuromuscular e-stim), which is the only electrical stimulation cleared by the FDA to treat dysphagia.  
  • Head and neck cancer-related speech and/or swallowing issues.
  • Voice evaluation and therapy for patients who present with voice problems.
  • Tracheostomized adults who require assistance with communication and swallowing.

In collaboration with the Outpatient Radiology Department, we offer modified barium swallow studies for doctors wanting further evaluation beyond our outpatient clinical evaluation.