Head and 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 to people with oral, […]
Written by Jaime Richardson, Speech Therapist May is Speech Therapy Month. And Speech Therapy Month is a great month for a new beginning! Do you feel fatigued? Have muscle stiffness? Difficulty swallowing? Trouble getting your words out? Or trouble putting things in order to complete daily tasks that typically are routine? If so, you are not alone. These things can happen […]
Speech Therapy after Laryngectomy: Vocal and Swallow Rehabilitation Three men. Three different symptoms. Alexander McGuiggan noticed a hoarse voice at Christmas and by March his voice had deteriorated to a whisper. Stewart Farmer noticed difficulty breathing that suddenly progressed and he was constantly short of breath. Alec Smith noticed a tickly throat and husky voice at the end of the day. Two years later he […]
Speech Therapy Helps Dysphagia Did you know that 89% of people with Brain Injury, Stroke, MS, and Parkinson’s Disease have trouble with speech and swallowing? Do You Have: Changes in your voice? Difficulty or pain while swallowing? Feel like something is stuck in your throat after eating? Do you cough or choke when you swallow? […]
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 your intelligence. Imagine how everyday tasks would suddenly become difficult. […]
June is Aphasia Awareness Month and speech therapy can help! What is aphasia? It is a communication disorder that interferes with a person’s ability to use or understand words. It results from damage or injury to language parts of the brain. Damage can occur from stroke, brain injury, dementia or other disorders of the brain. Aphasia does […]
Speech Therapy for Multiple Sclerosis Many people recognize that multiple sclerosis can result in weakness that interferes with the ability to walk. But did you know that multiple sclerosis can result in weakness of muscles that control speech and swallowing? Just like physical therapy can help with walking, speech therapy for multiple sclerosis can help with changes in voice, speech and swallowing. […]