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Connected Communication Is More Than Just "Speech Therapy."

Speech Therapy is the universal term to describe speech-language therapy with a speech-language pathologist. Historically speech therapy has been defined as a therapeutic approach that speech-language pathologists take to train people with speech and language problems to speak more clearly. However, I feel as though the term "Speech therapy" fails to acknowledge its involvement in

  • "Aphasia Therapy,"

  • "Augmentative-Alternative Communication Therapy."

  • "Cognitive-linguistic Communication Therapy,"

  • "Feeding therapy"

  • "Language therapy,"

  • "Literacy therapy," and

  • "Social Therapy," 

My goal is to help connect all the pieces for a holistic, functional, and meaningful therapuetic experience.

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Speech Therapy

A speech-language pathologist can treat speech-sound disorders, such as articulation or phonological disorders and disorders that impact a patient's overall speech intelligibility, including dysarthria and apraxia of speech. Therapy may involve direct instruction of speech sounds from isolated sounds to conversational speech.

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Social Therapy

A speech-language pathologist can treat social -pragmatic disorders. Therapy would focus on treat of a patient's ability to make inferences, understand social environments and conversations, understand the perspective of others, and/or use of social language.

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Cognitive-Linguisitic Communication Therapy

A speech-language pathologist can treat cognitive-linguistic impairments within a speech therapy session. This treatment emphasis the teachings of problem solving, abstract thinking, sequencing, executive-functioning, visual spatial, attention, inhibition, orientation and/or memory skills.

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Augmentative-Alternative Communication (AAC) Therapy

A speech-language pathologist can utilize AAC devices during "speech therapy" sessions to help non-verbal communicators improve there communication in ways that alternate from verbal speech. Verbal speakers can also use AAC when their speech is not clear or significant enough to meet their everyday wants and needs.

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Language / Literacy Therapy

A speech-language pathologist can treat language and literacy disorders. Therapy can include teaching of vocabulary and everyday concepts, expressive/receptive language skills, reading comprehension skills, phonological awareness skills for decoding and spelling words, and compensatory strategies that can improve those skills long term.

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Aphasia Therapy

A speech-language pathologist can treat aphasia with and without AAC devices. Goal of treatment would be to improve quality of life, increase engagement, reteach reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills, and provide alternate means of communication.

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Feeding Therapy

A speech-language pathologist can treat feeding disorders (i.e. Dysphagia).  Speech-therapy can focus on improving overall oral-pharyngeal strength for more efficient swallowing and potential diet consistency upgrades if judged to be safe to consume. This type of treatment is usually completed in collaboration with nutritionist, dietitians, Modified Barium Swallow Examinations or Fiberoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallow and/or medical doctors to ensure foods/liquid consumption are meeting nutritional needs and not resulting in aspiration pneumonia.

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