Speech therapy benefits people with degenerative diseases like dementia, ALS, and Parkinson's Disease.

We offer speech therapy to people with speech, language, cognitive, and swallow disorders.

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Speech Therapy (increasing intelligibility)

• Loudness and strengthening/laryngeal therapy

• Respiration exercises

• Articulation/speaking rate exercises

• Prosody exercises (to sound more natural, decreasing monotony in speech)

• Energy conservation, reducing fatigue

Compensatory Strategies

• Environmental changes (e.g., reducing background noise)

• Voice amplifier

• Educating communication partners

Augmentative/Alternative Communication

• Using low tech (e.g., gesturing, using pictures) or high tech (e.g.,

communication device) to facilitate meaningful communicative exchanges

Swallowing

• Swallowing assessment and maintenance of safe techniques, including

appropriate textures, eating strategies, and strengthening exercises

Cognition

• Various cognitive therapies (e.g. memory, attention, planning, safety

awareness, and abstract thinking)

• Visuospatial exercises (for change in visual awareness)