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Rehabilitation Services
Speech Therapy
A speech pathologist is a health care professional educated and trained to evaluate and treat people with speech, language and swallowing problems. Speech pathologists hold either a master's degree or doctorate degree and have earned a certification of clinical competence from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA).
Speech pathologists provide a variety of services aimed at helping people develop good communication skills and improve their ability to swallow.
These include:
- Assisting people who have trouble swallowing as a result of illness, surgery, stroke or injury.
- Helping people with aphasia to relearn speech and language skills.
- Assisting clients who have tracheotomies or are ventilator-dependent with oral communication.
- Helping people with articulation disorders learn proper production of speech sounds.
- Advising individuals and the community on ways to live with speech and language disorders.
- Enhancing communication abilities by improving skills, such as pitch, projection, accent and nonverbal communication.
- Assisting people with voice disorders.
- Evaluating, selecting and developing communication systems (such as voice-synthesizing computers and communication boards) for people with severe speech problems.
- Helping people who stutter to speak more fluently.
- Conducting research to develop new and better ways to evaluate and treat speech, language and swallowing problems.
For information on our rehabilitation services, call 1.877.902.4590 (Corpus Christi Facilities), 361.661.8130 (Alice), 361.354.2177 (Beeville), 361.595.4163 (Kleburg).
