Mobile & Telehealth Services
Communication
Neuro SLP helps people with:
Aphasia (uh-fay-zee-uh)
Aphasia is a problem understanding and/or using language to communicate. Aphasia does not affect intelligence but often affects understanding, speaking, reading, writing, and numbers. Aphasia varies for everyone and can make everyday communication very challenging. There are many treatments available and improvement can keep happening after many years of having aphasia.
Cognitive-communication
Difficulties with cognitive skills such as memory, problem solving, and reasoning can lead to trouble communicating. People who have cognitive challenges can have trouble structuring what they say, trouble keeping track during conversation, difficulty remembering an event to talk about it later, or problems with saying too much or too little in conversation.
Dysarthria (dis-ar- three-uh)
Dysarthria is a speech difficulty caused by changes to the way speech and breathing muscles move, making speech sound slurred, too fast, too slow, or too soft. As a result, speech becomes difficult to understand. Dysarthria can lead to difficulties participating in everyday communication, like being understood during everyday conversation, while speaking on the phone, or in background noise.
Apraxia (uh-pracks-see-uh)
Apraxia is a speech difficulty leading to trouble finding and using motor plans involved in speaking. It can feel like not knowing where to put your lips, tongue or jaw to form words. As a result, words may be hard to say, or words might not sound like they used to before apraxia. Apraxia can impact onsomeone’s ability to participate in everyday communication.
Swallowing
Dysphagia (dis-fay-juh)
Dysphagia is a difficulty moving food easily and completely from the mouth into the food pipe (oesophagus). People swallow at least 900 times a day. Swallowing is complicated, involving many small, fast and highly coordinated movements. When there’s a problem with one of more of the processes involved in swallowing, it can have a big impact on the individual. Dysphagia can be caused by any injury or illness that affects the brain’s ability to control the processes involved in swallowing. This includes stroke, Parkinson’s disease, motor neurone disease, multiple sclerosis, dementia, spinocerebellar degeneration, and surgery to the head or neck.
Contact Neuro SLP for information about how we help people with swallowing difficulties.
