Speech Therapy Articles
Speech Therapy Helps Long COVID
In the spring of 2020, Covid-19 rocked our world as suddenly patients overwhelmed clinics and hospitals in every city. Since that time, patients have relied on providers to support their healing and return to daily function. Outpatient clinics like Therapy…
Synchrony Dysphagia Treatment Changes Lives
Have you or someone you know experienced issues when eating or swallowing? Issues such as pain, being unable to swallow normally, coughing, gagging or feeling like there is food stuck in the throat? Do you have to avoid certain foods altogether because…
Speech Therapy For Aphasia
Speech Therapy For Aphasia June is Aphasia Awareness Month and speech therapy for aphasia can help! What is aphasia? It is a communication disorder that interferes your ability to say or understand words. It results from damage to language parts of…
Dysphagia: The Difficult Swallowing Dilemma
Many of us experience difficulty swallowing if we eat too fast or don't chew our food well. But, for more than 9-million Americans, this is more than an occasional annoyance. If you continually have difficulty swallowing, or if it's painful to swallow,…
Speech Therapy Month in 2020
May is Speech Therapy Month May is Speech Therapy Month. And Speech Therapy Month is a great month for a new beginning! People who have Head & Neck Cancer, Stroke, Brain Injury, Parkinson's Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, or other Neuromuscular Conditions…
Head & Neck Cancer Support Group Meets 2018
Support for People with Oral and Head and Neck Cancer Support Group meets 2018. SPOHNC is a cancer support group that meets on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 6:30 - 8:00 pm at Clearview Cancer Institute. They have a speaker on a topic of interest…
Bedside Swallow Exam for Dysphagia
What is dysphagia? Dysphagia is difficulty swallowing. This difficulty can range from mild-to-profound in nature and may arise from a variety of causes including neurological changes, injuries/surgeries, disease processes or other sources. What is a…
Aphasia: Speech Therapy Helps Life Without Words
Speech Therapy helps life without words. Communication is not only how we interact with the world, it is how the world interacts with us.Imagine you suddenly lost your ability to understand speech, to talk, to read, and to write but you had NOT lost…