Speech Therapy  

What is Speech Therapy? - Referral Process - Speech and Language Disorders

Speech and Language Disorders:

• Find useful information about various speech and language disorders, based on the American Speech Language Hearing Association.
  
  
• AAC--Augmentative and Alternative Communication
  Information about AAC, including a glossary.
  
  
• Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
  Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), its effects, and the role of the speech-language pathologist.
  
  
• Aphasia
  Aphasia, expressive and receptive language, dysarthria, dysphagia, apraxia, SLPs, speech-language assessment, treatment, and people with aphasia.
  
  
• Apraxia in Adults
  Apraxia (also referred to as apraxia of speech, verbal apraxia, or dyspraxia) is a motor speech disorder caused by damage to the parts of the nervous system related to speaking.
  
  
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  Symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and the speech and language assessment and treatment of ADHD.
  
  
• Childhood Apraxia of Speech
  Developmental (childhood) apraxia of speech, its signs in children, its assessment and treatment
  
  
• Dementia
  The term "dementia" describes a cluster of symptoms related to memory loss and overall cognitive impairment that is progressive in nature and often irreversible.
  
  
• Dysarthria
  After a stroke or other brain injury, the muscles of the mouth, face, and respiratory system may become weak, move slowly, or not move at all. The resulting speech condition is called dysarthria.
  
  
• Head and Neck Cancer
  Read about laryngeal cancer, oral cancer, and swallowing problems after cancer.
  
  
• Huntingtons Disease
  Communication, swallowing and cognitive problems; the SLP; improving communication, listening suggestions, warning signs, and planning ahead.
  
  
• Language-Based Learning Disabilities
  Persons at risk for language-based learning disabilities, the SLP, prevention, speech and language assessment, and treatment.
  
  
• Laryngeal Cancer
  Laryngeal cancer, speech-language pathology before and after surgery, help for swallowing problems and other problems, and those with laryngeal cancer.
  
  
• Late Blooming or Language Problem?
  Speech and language development in children
  
  
• Long-Term Recovery After Stroke
  After a stroke, an individual may experience physical difficulties, particularly in the arm, leg and face on one side of the body, cognitive problems, and speech and language deficits.
  
  
• Oral Cancer
  The causes and effects of oral cancer, including effects leading to speech deficits.
  
  
• Orofacial Myofunctional Disorders
  Orofacial myofunctional disorders, the OMD team, OMD causes, effects on speech, and the SLP's role.
  
  
• Paradoxical Vocal Fold Movement
  Paradoxical Vocal Fold Movement (PVFM) is a voice disorder in which the vocal folds behave in a normal fashion almost all of the time, but, when an episode occurs, causes the vocal folds to close when they should open, such as when breathing. 
  
  
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  Parkinson’s Disease (A progressive nervous disease occurring most often after the age of 50, associated with the destruction of brain cells that produce dopamine and characterized by muscular tremor, slowing of movement, partial facial paralysis, peculiarity of gait and posture, and weakness) -
  
  
• Right Hemisphere Brain Damage
  Damage to the right hemisphere of the brain can lead to cognitive-communication problems, such as impaired memory, attention problems and poor reasoning.
  
  
• Selective Mutism
  Selective mutism, its assessment and treatment, and its occurences.
  
  
• Spasmodic Dysphonia
  Spasmodic dysphonia, its causes, diagnosis, and treatment
  
  
• Speech for Patients With Tracheostomies or Ventilators
  Speech for patients with tracheostomies or ventilators and the speech-language pathologist and rehabilitation team
  
  
• Stroke
  The symptoms and causes of stroke, its effects related to and not related to communication, and the speech-language assessment and treatment of stroke.
  
  
• Stuttering
  An overview of characteristics and treatment methods.
  
  
• Swallowing – (http://www.asha.org/public/speech/swallowing)
  
  
• Traumatic Brain Injury
  Traumatic brain injury, TBI, its physical, communication, and cognition problems, and the role of the speech-language pathologist in its assessment and treatment
  
  
•  Vocal Fold Nodules and Polyps
  Read about causes, diagnosis, and treatment for vocal fold nodules and polyps.
  
  
• Vocal Fold Paralysis
  Nerve damage to the vagus nerve, which has branches that run from the brainstem to the larynx and regulates the movement of the vocal folds, is the specific cause of vocal fold paralysis.