Speech and Language Therapy

Millions of children and adults suffer from communication and swallowing disorders. A Speech and Language Professional can evaluate and treat those who experience problems with communicating, thinking skills, and swallowing. Speech and language affect an individual's ability to relate to others and to learn.

The Elkhart General Speech and Language Professionals will help you understand your impairment and develop a plan that will help you fulfill your potential for increased function.

Services include assistance for individuals with communication difficulty resulting from:

• Stroke, brain injury or other illness and injury that impair attention, reasoning, memory, judgment and problem solving
• Aphasia which is the loss of ability to speak or understand speech
• Swallowing difficulty
• Stuttering
• Motor speech disorders that make articulation and intelligible speech difficult

To Learn More

For more information, please call Outpatient Rehabilitation Services at (574) 523-3242.

• Cognitive Retraining
  Cognitive retraining is one aspect of cognitive rehabilitation, a comprehensive approach to restoring such skills after brain injury or other disability.
• Deep Pharyngeal Neuromuscular Stimulation
  Deep Pharyngeal Neuromuscular Stimulation (DPNS) is a therapeutic program that restores muscle strength and reflexes within the throat for improved efficient swallow function.
• Videofluroscopy
  Videofluroscopy is an x-ray procedure done to evaluate the swallowing function.
• Vital Stim
  The only neuromuscular electrical stimulator technology cleared by the FDA for restoring the swallowing function for patients with dysplagia (swallowing difficulty).
  
• Voice Therapy
  Voice Therapy provides outpatient treatment for people who experience vocal impairments.