MDH Speech Pathologists provide a wide range of services based on the individual needs of the patient:
• Speech: Difficulty producing speech sounds correctly
• Fluency: Involuntary disruptions or breaks in the flow of speech (stuttering).
• Language: Trouble understanding others or sharing thoughts, ideas, and feelings. Language disorders may be spoken or written and may involve the form, content and/or use of language in functional and socially appropriate ways. Additional areas of language treatment may include difficulties with literacy skills, language processing, or phonological awareness.
• Cognitive aspects of communication: Problems with attention, memory, thought organization, planning, problem solving, or executive function. These disorders typically occur as a result of a stroke, traumatic brain injury, or dementia.
• Voice: Abnormal production of vocal quality, pitch, loudness, resonance, and/or duration. This may include poor vocal volume, abnormal vocal quality, vocal cord dysfunction or vocal cord paralysis.
• Swallowing: Feeding and swallowing difficulties which may be attributed to an illness, surgery, stroke, injury, or age.
