Integrity Rehab in Harker Heights, Killeen, and Copperas Cove, TX provides therapy specifically tailored to the speech, voice, language, feeding, and swallowing needs of our pediatric and adult patients.
Our speech therapists work hard to help our patients develop strong oral motor skills and decrease issues they may have with eating, drinking, swallowing, and communicating.
If you or your child are living with a speech or language related disorder, contact our clinic in Harker Heights, Central Killeen, West Killeen, and Copperas Cove to learn more and set up an appointment today.
Types and causes of speech disorders
The National Library of Medicine explains that “Deficits in speech and language functions can be of numerous types, including aphasia, stuttering, articulation disorders, verbal dyspraxia, and specific language impairment; language deficits are also related to dyslexia.”
Many factors can cause a patient to have difficulty with speech, language, or swallowing. Some factors are genetic, but others may include the following according to Healthline:
- Vocal cord damage
- Brain damage
- Muscle weakness
- Respiratory weakness
- Strokes
- Polyps or nodules on the vocal cords
- Vocal cord paralysis
- Conditions such as autism, strokes, ADHD, ALS, and dementia
Symptoms of speech disorders
Adult speech difficulties are common and come in many forms including stuttering, dysarthria (a problem with motor control of speech), voice problems, and articulation difficulties. These issues can cause a person to not want to communicate or become emotionally withdrawn from others.
Our pediatric patients face developmental delays and have challenges meeting their milestones with speech and language, making it difficult for them to interact with others, learn, explore and play.
Some other symptoms of speech disorders include:
- Muscle weakness, tightness in the throat or tongue
- Difficulty speaking and understanding spoken language
- Difficulty understanding written language
- Changes in memory, attention, orientation
- Changes in the quality of voice
- Chewing or swallowing difficulties (which poses a health risk)
- Difficulty expressing thoughts or identifying common objects or people
How Speech Therapy Can Help You Or Your Child
Speech therapy at Integrity Rehab encourages individuals to develop effective speaking and listening skills, improve loudness of voice, and re-train cognitive skills. It also aids in improving confidence and morale.
Treatment at our Harker Heights, Central Killeen, West Killeen, and Copperas Cove clinic focuses on speech therapists who can help you or your child learn to communicate, chew and swallow properly, and help improve overall morale.
Our therapists utilize neurological and speech exercises to help with a wide array of speech/language difficulties, and will be able to assess your speaking abilities. This way they can determine if there are any problems, and then create a treatment plan with specific exercises to improve it.
The speech therapy exercises can range from tasks that strengthen the muscles of the face, tongue, and throat to vocabulary development and even basic communication skills like making eye contact when speaking to others.
Could speech therapy benefit you?
If you or your child is experiencing difficulty with speech, language, or swallowing abilities, rest assured that a speech therapist can help. There is no reason to let a speech problem get in the way of your life or your child’s development.
Rest assured that you’re in good hands at Integrity Rehab. We do our best to create a warm and welcoming environment in which you or your child can improve speaking skills and live a more fulfilling life.
Call our clinic today for more information or to set up an appointment.
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