Speech Therapy
Speech therapy at Bayfront Health Spring Hill evaluates and treats patients with communciation and swallowing disorders. A speech therapist may perform speech and language evaluations, standard swallowing evaluations and radiographic barium swallow studies.
Speech therapy, which is physician prescribed, can help patients who have or have had:
- Cognitive/linguistic impairments
- Swallowing disorders (dysphagia)
- Oral/motor impairments
- Partial or complete removal of tongue or larynx
- An inability to communicate through speech, writing or signs
- Speech impairment secondary to neurological disorders
- Head injury and CVA/stroke
- Voice disorders
- hearing impaired communication
Types of Speech Disorders
- Aphasia: the loss of ability to use words to communicate because of inability to remember the correct word
- Dysarthria: the loss of ability to produce speech because of muscle weakness or coordination
- Apraxia: the loss of ability to say words, not because of muscle weakness, but because of interruption of brain functioning to send the correct message to produce the word
- Cognitive language problems: ineffective communication resulting from problems with attention and concentration, orientation, memory, reasoning, problem solving, language organization and judgment
- Dysphagia: a swallowing disorder that interferes with safe and timely oral nutrition (eating by mouth)
Our speech therapists provide customized treatment plans to address each patient’s unique challenges, and offer valuable information and encouragement to support each individual’s goals.