ADULT SPEECH THERAPY SERVICES can include:
COGNITIVE COMMUNICATION ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT
Cognitive communication deficits can include difficulties in any areas of attention, memory, thought organization, language, problem solving/reasoning, and executive functions which result from an injury to the brain due to stroke, head trauma, tumors, or infections. Problems with cognitive communication can affect activities of daily living, and academic and work performance.
Cognitive deficits may also result in the inability to pay attention, process information quickly, remember and recall information, respond to information quickly, think critically, plan, organize and solve problems, and initiate speech.
Cognitive communication deficits can also result from dementia. Dementia is a loss of mental functions that is severe enough to affect your daily life and activities. These functions can include memory, language skills, visual perception (your ability to make sense of what you see), problem solving, trouble with everyday tasks, and the ability to focus and pay attention.
APHASIA ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT
“Aphasia” is a disorder resulting from damage or injury to the language area in the brain. It results from an injury to the brain due to stroke, head trauma, tumors, or infections.
A person with aphasia may speak in short or incomplete sentences; speak in sentences that don't make sense; substitute one word for another or one sound for another; speak unrecognizable words; not understand other people's conversation; write sentences that don't make sense; and/or not understand what they are reading.
SPEECH AND ARTICULATION ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT
“Dysarthria” is often characterized by slurred or slow speech that can be difficult to understand.
“Apraxia” is often characterized by your inability to move your lips or tongue the right way to say sounds. If you have apraxia of speech, you may have problems saying sounds correctly.
VOICE ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT
A person with a voice disorder may have vocal roughness, breathiness, strained or strangled voice quality, abnormal pitch, abnormal loudness or volume, loss of voice, hoarseness, a weak voice, a “shaky” voice, or a gurgly/wet voice.