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Speech Therapy
Being able to communicate our wants, needs, thoughts and ideas is essential to our existance. The only way to communicate is to be understood. Our personalized solutions ensure your specific speech deficits are addressed with therapy tailored to improving your ability to express yourself.
- Personalized therapy involving varied exercises that you can carryover throughout your week
- Emphasis on improving effectivness of communication
- Work consistently with our highly-skilled SLP to break down barriers from a multitude of speech impediments
- Language development for pediatrics
Common Symptoms:
Difficulty with oral motor muscle control, difficulty with cordination of muscles for speech, uninteeligible speech, slurring speech, tension in face, stuttering, groping for words, mumbling
Common Diagnoses Treated:
Dysarthria, apraxia, pragmatics/autism, traumatic brain injuries (TBI), head & neck cancer, aphasia, neuromuscular disorders, functional neurological disorders (FND), developmetal disorders, articulation disorders, fluency disorders
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Swallowing Therapy
The act of eating is more than just our ability to sustain nutrition, it is a powerful way to foster connections, spread joy, share an experience, create bonds and show our love for others. If you are experiencing difficulty swallowing (see symptoms below) then an evaluation is a vital step in gaining back your quality of life. This is especially true if a doctor is recommending you get a feeding tube. Countless success stories speak for themselves when it comes to DSSS’s role in patients regaining this essential aspect of life.
- Personalized therapy involving varied exercises that you can carryover throughout your week
- Use of VitalStim™ to target certain muscles that need rehabilitation when other therapies are insufficient or fail
- Incorporating the use of respiratory strengthening devices into your exercises to compliment the productivity of your swallow function
- Myofascial massages to relieve pain and restore movement
Common Symptoms:
Coughing, choking, food sticking in throat, gagging when eating, clearing the throat while eating, drooling, holding food in mouth or cheeks, taking a long time to finish meals, pain with swallowing, difficulty chewing or pain with chewing, food or liquids coming out of the nose, weight loss, aspiration pneumonia
Common Diagnoses Treated:
Dysphagia, Traumatic brain injuries (TBI), orafacial myofunctional disorders, temporomandibular joint (TMJ) disorders, head & neck cancer, neuromuscular disorders, functional neurological disorders (FND), sarcopenia
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Voice Therapy
The human voice is a powerful instrument. Losing it can be devastating. Whether you are dealing with a voice disorder, vocal strain, or anything related to your voice not sounding how you want it to, we are here to help. Customized exercises geared towards your specific deficit can be the difference needed in reclaiming your vocal abilities or achieving your vocal goals.
- Personalized therapy involving varied exercises that you can carryover throughout your week
- Use of VitalStim™ to target and stimulate certain muscles that may be out of practice
- Use of respiratory stengthening devices into your exercises for more robust results
- Massage and manual techniques
Common Symptoms:
Changes in vocal pitch and speed, poor vocal quality, soft or breathy speech, monotone, reduced projection, gravely voice, vocal fatigue, coughing when trying to project voice
Common Diagnoses Treated:
Dysphonia, aphonia, dysarthria, traumatic brain injuries (TBI), neuromuscular disorders, head & neck cancer, hypophonia, puperphonia, functional neurological disorders (FND), vocal cord paralysis, laryngeal trauma, muscle tension
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Cognitive Communication Therapy
Our brains, like muscles, need exercising. Whether you are suffering from a neurological disorder or degenerative disease, it is important to receive specialized treatment that targets memory, communication, and other neurologically-based facets of everyday life. During our evaluation, our goal is to identify your cognitive strengths and weaknesses to create a rehabilitative plan of care that leverages your strengths to improve the weaknesses.
- Personalized therapy involving puzzles, games, and many other cognitive exercises
- Treatment from an SLP who understands every patient’s cognitive deficits are different
- Treatment that goes beyond the walls of our office and applies your exercises to the real world
- Genuinely compassionate interactions that help calm nerves and take the edge off of what can be a difficult and anxiety-provoking process
Common Symptoms:
Brain fog, word-finding difficulties, memory and attention deficits, difficulty with spatial navigation, forgetting people’s names and/or faces, forgetting recent events, calling objects by the wrong name
Common Diagnoses Treated:
Aphasia, traumatic brain injuries (TBI), functional neurological disorders (FND), mild coginitive impairment (MCI), age-related cogntive changes
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