Adult Therapy Services
The Speech Cove LLC provides natural environment based intervention to enhance carryover skills through speech therapy for adults. Services can be provided in the comfort of your own home, online, or during a community outing. The Speech Cove specializes in evaluation and treatment for the following areas:
Aphasia
Aphasia is an aquired language disorder that results from damage to specific parts of the brain. Aphasia causes difficulties with any, or all of the following: expressive language (speaking), receptive language (understanding), reading, and writing.
Apraxia & Dysarthria
Apraxia is a motor speech disorder that impairs the brain's ability to plan the movements of the lips, jaw, and tongue needed for speech production.
Dysarthria is a motor speech disorder. The musculature of the mouth, face, and respiratory system may become weak due to a variety of medically-related causes. The type and severity of dysarthria depend upon the etiology of the disorder (ie. stroke, Parkinson's, ALS, etc).
Cognitive Disorders
Cognitive-Communication disorders disrupt attention, memory, organization, problem solving/reasoning, and executive functions which may be due to dementia, traumatic brain injury, brain tumor, and other medical conditions.
Dysphagia
Difficulty swallowing is called dysphagia. Dysphagia can occur during any phase of swallowing. Oral phase dysphagia could involve difficulty chewing, food getting stuck in the mouth, etc. Pharyngeal phase dysphagia involves a problem with the transfer of food from the mouth into the esophagus. Esophageal phase dysphagia refers to difficulty passing food through the esophagus into the stomach and could be caused by several specific disorders such as gastric reflux, etc.