Speech therapy
Speech therapy
Overview
Our speech therapists can help you improve your ability to speak, swallow and communicate following a medical diagnosis or surgery.
Why Piedmont
Personalized care
Expert therapists
Wide range of treatments
Communication is our link to the world around us, and it can be extremely challenging to be unable to speak or swallow properly. Our licensed and nationally certified speech-language pathologists understand your anxiety and concerns and are here to support you. Our team offers speech and language assessments that utilize technology and standardized testing to evaluate communication, cognitive, voice and swallowing challenges resulting from disabilities, surgeries or developmental disorders.
Our focus includes prevention, evaluation, treatment, counseling and follow-up for speech and language disorders.
What causes speech or swallowing problems?
The following conditions can lead to difficulty speaking or swallowing:
- Head and neck cancer
- Neurological diseases such as Parkinson’s disease, ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease), multiple sclerosis, myasthenia gravis, dementia of the Alzheimer’s type and other neurodegenerative disorders
- Stroke
- Brain tumor
- Head injury
- Voice disorders
- Laryngeal trauma or injury
- Articulation disorders
- Passy-Muir speaking valves for trach-dependent patients
Treatments and services
Aural rehabilitation
Cognitive retraining
Deep facial muscle exercise
Deep pharyngeal neuromuscular stimulation
Feeding evaluation
Fiberoptic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing (FEES)
Laryngeal videostroboscopy
Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT)
Modified barium swallow studies (MBS)
Pediatric evaluation and treatment
Speech-generating device
Tracheoesophageal prosthesis for voice restoration
VitalStim therapy
Patient stories
Pastor finds his voice again after a stroke
Speech therapy locations
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