Speech and Language Therapy

At Livingston HealthCare, we offer rehabilitation services to help you restore or improve your quality of life, whether you are recovering from an injury or illness or coping with a chronic condition. Our experienced team of physical, occupational, and speech therapists will create personal goals and a customized treatment program for you. Whether you are still in the hospital or already an outpatient, we offer care designed to get you back to what you love doing.

Livingston HealthCare provides a full range of speech language therapy services, all aimed at improving a patient’s communication, cognitive and linguistic skills and swallowing abilities. Our speech language pathologist conducts a thorough diagnostic evaluation and develops an appropriate treatment plan, incorporating patient/family education components, speech therapy exercises and necessary follow-up services. The treatment plan helps individuals who are tracheostomy or ventilator dependent, present with language delays or speech disorders or who have swallowing disorders.

Speech and language therapy services include:

• Dysphagia (swallowing) evaluation and treatment
• Videofluoroscopy Services: a specialized modified barium swallow study, followed by the identification and implementation of compensatory swallowing strategies and diet recommendations
• Cognitive retraining after strokes
• Voice therapy to remediate disorders in vocal quality, volume, prosody and resonance
• Language therapy to improve comprehension and expression
• Speaking valves and care for tracheostomy patients
• Language therapy to improve comprehension and expression

For additional information for children, please click here to view our Pediatric Rehabilitation page.

For more information about any of Livingston HealthCare's speech and language therapy services, talk with your physician or call 406.222.7231.