Speech therapy services

At Firelands Regional Medical Center, pediatric and adult clients can be evaluated and treated for various speech and language disorders, cognitive disorders and swallowing disorders by our team of highly-skilled speech-language pathologists.

Conditions treated

Firelands provides comprehensive diagnostic evaluations, consultations, caregiver education and evidence-based treatment for the following conditions:

• Articulation and phonology
• Apraxia
• Language (receptive and expressive)
• Voice
• Resonance (including those associated with velopharyngeal dysfunction or cleft palate)
• Fluency (stuttering)
• Central auditory processing
• Oral-motor and feeding and swallowing disorders (dysphagia)
• Dysarthria
• Tongue thrust
• Augmentative communication needs
• Aphasia
• Pragmatics disorders
• Autism, Down syndrome and brain injury
• Cognitive-linguistic deficits
• Learning disabilities