Speech Therapy

When should I be concerned about a loved one's communication development?

Permian Regional Medical Center proudly offers Speech Therapy for inpatient and outpatient services, which includes:

• Pediatric
  
• Adulthood
  
• Geriatric

Pediatrics

Birth - Three Years

1. Feeding Therapy
2. The primary goals of feeding and swallowing intervention for children are:
3. To safely support adequate nutrition and hydration, determine the optimum feeding methods/techniques to maximize swallowing safety and feeding efficiency.
   
4. Collaborate with family to incorporate dietary preferences.
   
5. Attain age-appropriate eating skills in the most normal setting and manner possible (i.e., eat and chew meals with peers in preschool.)
   
6. Minimize the risk of pulmonary complications, maximize the quality of life.
   
7. Prevent future feeding issues with positive feeding/oral experiences as able, given medical situation.
   
8. Help the child eat and drink efficiently and safely to whatever degree possible.
9. Speech and/or language delay
10. Speech and/or language disorder

Pre-School

Three Years - Five Years

1. Persistent problems with speech/language
2. Which includes difficulty with the development of speech-sounds, errors in speech, and uses of sound substitutions which result in difficulty understanding the child.
3. Stuttering

School Age

Kindergarten - High School

1. Children with more severe delay/disorder
2. Autism
   
3. Down-Syndrome
   
4. TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury)
   
5. CAS (Childhood Apraxia of Speech)
   
6. Various other genetic disorders
7. Children with hearing issues
8. Hearing aids, cochlear implants) Aural Rehab-therapy is designed to draw a child's attention to their production of sounds.
9. AAC (Augmented Alternative Communication)
10. Language Difficulties
11. LD (Learning Disability)
    
12. SLI (Specific Language Impairment)
    
13. Dyslexia
    
14. Executive Dysfunction
15. CAPD (Central Auditory Processing Disorder)
16. Pragmatics/Social Interactions
    

Adults

High School - Retirement

1. TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury)
2. Dysphagia
3. Difficulties swallowing due to stroke, TBI, surgery, medications
4. Voice
5. GERD
   
6. Vocal Nodules
7. Surgery
8. Profession-related Voice Problems
9. Cancer-total laryngectomy-AAC-Voice Prosthesis
10. Aphasia
11. The breakdown of receptive language, expressive language, or both generally resulting from a stroke or traumatic brain event.
12. AAC (Augmented Alternative Communication)
13. Dysarthria
14. Motor speech problems generally occurring in damage to brain and cranial/spinal nerves from injury and various diseases
15. Flaccid - Trauma, Brainstem, stroke, Myasthenia Gravis, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, polio, tumors
16. Spastic - Stroke, ALS, Traumatic Head injury, Cerebral Anoxia, Brainstem Tumor
17. Unilateral Upper Motor Stroke, Tumor, TBI
18. Ataxic - Degenerative Disease, Stroke, Toxic and Metabolic Conditions, Tumor
19. Hypokinetic - Parkinson's Disease, Stroke
20. Hyperkinetic - Chorea, Huntington's Disease, Stroke
21. Mixed - ALS, MS, Multisystem Atrophy, Wilson's Disease
    

Adults

Residents of Retirement Community/Nursing Home

1. Dysphagia (swallowing problems.)
   
2. Stroke
   
3. Dementia
   
4. Dysarthria
   

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