Many
residents who have suffered from strokes, brain injury,
Alzheimer's or other neurological disorders often lose
the ability to speak and may have difficulty understanding
spoken and written material. Through careful evaluation,
planning, and treatment programs, speech-language therapists
work at improving a resident's communication skills. Therapy
can stimulate and improve the resident's speaking, reading,
writing, comprehension and cognitive ability.
Our speech therapy program restores or improves the
patient's communication abilities, speech/language deficits,
hearing impairments, and/or swallowing abilities. The
registered therapist provides:
- Speech/language: Assessment and retraining of compensatory
strategies to facilitate speaking clearly, understanding
others, and improving word-seeking difficulties.
- Cognitive intervention: Application of techniques
to assist with memory deficits, judgment/reasoning difficulties,
and orientation deficits.
- Therapeutic feeding program: Assists with management
of swallowing and feeding difficulties.
- Enteral feeding: Assessment and treatment of
patients with potential to return to oral feeding while
also providing a safe and adequate hydration and nutrition
intake.
- Aural Rehabilitation: Identifying and assessing
hearing impaired individuals who may benefit from improving
speech, reading, and listening skills. Hearing aid training
to attain highest level of functional communication.
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