Speech-Language pathologists in the Rehabilitation Department at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Southwest Fort Worth provide assessment and treatment of adult patients with difficulty in:
- Speech and voice
- Language
- Auditory, reading and written comprehension
- Swallowing
- Cognitive aspects of communication including memory, attention and problem solving
Speaking, swallowing, and/or communicating disorders may be present in persons with neurological deficits caused by stroke, brain injury, Parkinson's, Guillain-Barre and other neurological disease or injury.
Speech Therapy includes:
- Oral motor exercise
- Dysphagia (swallowing) therapy (including VitalStim Therapy)
- Voice treatment (including Lee Silverman Voice treatment)
- Reading and writing skills
- Speech and language therapy
- Cognitive therapy
- Accent modification
- Articulation therapy
- Passy Muir valve training
- Patient and family education in communication, cognition and swallowing self-management
Speech-Language pathologists perform modified barium swallow studies (MBS) in collaboration with the hospital's radiology department. Please call 817-433-1600 for more information.
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