Speech Therapy Articles

August 01, 2023

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…

June 01, 2023

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…

August 17, 2021

What Is an Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury?

Did you know that every year at least 250,000 people around the world experience a spinal cord injury (SCI)? The complications from a spinal cord injury are very severe. SCIs can be incomplete or complete. Most people who suffer from them often have a…

June 18, 2021

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,…

January 12, 2021

Speech Therapy Rehabilitation after COVID

We've all been living in a different world since the winter of 2019 when COVID-19 abruptly began to change the way we approach our jobs, family life, and most aspects of our social interactions in day-to-day routines. Earlier this year, we started to…

May 01, 2020

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…

May 09, 2018

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…

April 07, 2018

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…

June 20, 2015

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…