We strive to provide quality evaluation and rehabilitation of deficits pertaining to communication, cognition and swallowing for all ages. Our areas of expertise span premature infants through end-of-life care. We work in all inpatient units at Denver Health, and we serve our outpatients in the Rehabilitation Clinic.
A speech-language pathologist evaluates patients to determine the cause of various speech, language, cognitive-communication and swallowing disorders affecting all ages. Depending on the cause of the problem, therapy is executed to improve deficits. Speech language pathologists obtain a master’s degree to practice and they are required to pass a national certification examination for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Society.
Conditions and Treatments
- Aphasia – language loss after stroke or other neurologic insult
- Laryngectomy – electrolarynx training, pre-surgical counseling and communication restoration, including tracheoesophageal prosthesis
- Voice disorders – Lee Silverman Voice Therapy™
- Communication problems associated with head injury (cognitive-linguistic intervention)
- Motor speech disorders (apraxia, dysarthria)
- Pre and post-surgical testing for patients undergoing surgery for chronic seizure activity
- Attention
- Memory
- Executive functions
- Articulation disorders
- Phonological processing disorders
- Communication problems associated with autism
- Stuttering
- Communication disorders related to hearing loss
- Language delay
- Expressive and receptive language disorders
- Auditory processing disorders
- Articulation and feeding disorders related to cleft lip and palate
- Reading disorders
- Pediatric dysphagia and feeding disorders
- Clinical swallow evaluation
- Fluoroscopic swallow evaluation (modified barium swallow study)
- Preventative swallow program for patients afflicted with cancer in the head and neck region
- Pediatric dysphagia
- Swallowing difficulty
- Mild cognitive disorders
- Loss of voice
- Motor speech disorders
- Transgender voice therapy
- NMES - Vital Stim Therapy
- Return to work or school
