Speech & Swallowing Therapy
Work with an experienced speech-language pathologist (SLP) at PIH Health to improve your speech, language and swallowing.
What's A Speech-Language Pathologist?
Speech therapists are experts in preventing, assessing, diagnosing and treating problems related to communication, feeding and swallowing.
When to See a SLP
Speech therapy is for adults and children who:
- Have trouble with language, putting words together to express thoughts or understanding others
- Are later than average to start speaking
- Need training or retraining for saying sounds or words correctly (articulation)
- Want to improve the ability to say complete words, as in a stutter (fluency)
Conditions We Treat
Ask your doctor for a referral to an SLP at PIH Health to help with:
- Dysphagia (difficulty swallowing)
- Recovering your speech and language after a neurologic condition or injury, such as:
- Stroke
- Traumatic brain injury
- Brain or nerve disease
- Head or neck cancer
- Recovering from injury or conditions that affect your voice
- Difficulty remembering words or language (aphasia)
- Difficulty making the physical movements of speech (apraxia)
- Learning disabilities
- Hearing impairment
Personalized Speech & Swallowing Therapy
Speech and language professionals at PIH Health offer a wide range of services and treatments, such as:
- Evaluation to determine the injury or illness that keeps you from speaking or swallowing properly
- Swallowing (dysphagia) therapy, including VitalStim® technology to retrain muscles used for swallowing
- Passy-Muir speaking valve evaluation for people who depend on a ventilator to help restore their voice
- Nutrition education for changes in diet that can help reduce the risk of choking or pneumonia
- Voice therapies
- In-depth evaluation with Visi-Pitch™ advanced biofeedback technology
- Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT®) instruction to help you speak louder and more clearly
- Breath training to help you breathe deeper to better project your voice
- Training to decrease stress on vocal cords
