Heart of the Rockies Regional Medical Center: Speech Therapy.

Speech Therapy

Speech Therapy helps individuals of all ages with speech, voice, language, and swallowing disorders - serious yet treatable conditions. Speech Pathologists are the professionals who diagnose and treat these disorders. These conditions make it difficult for people to express themselves, understand the spoken or written word, or to swallow safely. These disorders can drastically affect school performance and social development.

Our services include:
Stuttering Treatment
This treatment helps eliminate or minimize the hesitation and sound repetition that characterize this disorder.

Aphasia Therapy
This assists patients, including stroke and head injury patients, who can think and say words clearly, but cannot put words together to express their thoughts.

Voice Disorder Treatment
Voice Disorder Treatment aids individuals who cannot speak and require the use of technology such as voice-synthesizing computers to help them communicate. Augmentative communication, which is the use of a speech aide, is also available. Treatment is also available for those who have lost their ability to produce vocal sound due to laryngeal cancer, vocal nodules, neuromuscular disease, etc.

Dysphagia/Swallowing Disorder Therapy
This assists patients who have difficulty swallowing, which is usually a symptom of an underlying disease. These disorders can cause discomfort, dehydration, malnutrition, aspiration pneumonia, and in some cases are life-threatening.

Speech Therapy is available for inpatients and outpatients.
It may also be done in your home through Upper Arkansas Home Health Services. For more information, ask your physician or call HRRMC's Occupational and Speech Therapy Office 719-530-2040.

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