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.