Front row; Jena Meyer speech therapist, Mandy Graham owner, speech therapist, Carrie Potter owner, office admin. and Kindra Howard, speech therapist
RESTORe Speech Therapy at CMC
Speech Therapy services are available at CMC as well as home health.
In a medical setting the RESTORe Speech-language pathologists (SLP) assess, diagnose, treat and help to prevent oral motor, swallowing, cognitive-linguistic, speech and language disorders.
These professionals work with individuals whose oral motor, swallowing, cognitive-linguistic, speech, or language skills have been impacted by a neurological event or disease, head and/or neck cancer, or possibly a debilitation related to an underlying medical disease process.
The patient’s condition can result from a variety of neurological events, including brain injury, stroke, seizure, progressive disease, cancer, and/or debilitation related to other medical diseases. The SLP uses physical examination, instrumental technology, and standardized cognitive-linguistic and language tests to diagnose and guide treatment.
SLP develops an individualized plan of care, specific to each patient’s needs. That may include the following:
- Alternate nutrition based upon aspiration risk when swallowing
- Diet level modification to reduce aspiration risk when swallowing
- Design an individualized augmentative communication system or prescribe a speech generating device for individuals with nonfunctional speech
- Provide education to patients, their family members and caregivers regarding impairments, disease processes, and compensatory strategies
- Develop daily home programs unique to each individual’s strengths and weakness that facilitate maintenance of swallowing, cognitive-linguistic, speech, or language skills at an optimal level.
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Personalized services are through referral and appointments. Hours: 7 a.m. – 5 p.m. |
For more information call (785) 741-0781 Mandy Graham, MA, CCC-SLP Owner, Speech Language Pathologist RESTORe |