Speech Therapy

Rapid Recovery Suites offers a superior, comprehensive Speech Therapy program for those experiencing speech, communication, and cognitive and/or swallowing issues. A speech language pathologist (SLP) assesses, diagnoses, treats and helps prevent swallowing (dysphagia), cognitive-linguistic, speech and language disorders.

They work with individuals who have been affected by a neurological event or disease, head or neck cancer, or may have cognitive or physical debilitation from a recent surgery or underlying health condition or disease process. They will develop a plan to increase communication, cognition, voice function, or swallowing function, or safe swallowing strategies, including weaning a patient from tube feeding.

Speech Language Pathology may treat the following conditions:

• Stroke
• Traumatic Brain Injury
• Progressive Neurological conditions and issues such as Parkinson’s, Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimer’s Disease
• Cognitive problems
• Respiratory and pulmonary conditions
• Spinal Cord injuries
• Ventilator patients
• Tracheostomies
• Cancer in the throat, mouth or esophagus
• Communication deficits
• Swallowing disorders (dysphagia)

Speech Language Pathology treatment may include: 

• Expressive and receptive communication
• Memory, thinking and cognitive processing
• Neuromuscular re-education
• Voice therapy
• Aural rehabilitation
• Dysarthria
• Dysphagia (swallowing disorder)
• Augmentative Communication
• Reading and Writing
• Compensatory techniques and safety awareness
• Caregiver education and training
• Retraining for “real life situations” in our ADL home prior to discharge
• Home evaluation prior to discharge