ADULT THERAPY SERVICES
TREATMENT TO ADULTS WITH A VARIETY OF CONDITIONS
CVA (Stroke) or TIA (Transient Ischemic Attack)
Right Hemisphere Impairments
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Aphasia
Dysarthria / Apraxia
Dysphagia
Bell’s Palsy
Aspiration Pneumonia
Parkinson’s disease
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
Multiple Sclerosis
Alzheimer’s Dis
Dementia
COPD/Asthma
GERD
Failure to Thrive
Encephalitis/Seizures
STROKE
A stroke occurs when the blood supply to part of the brain is interrupted or reduced and it is most likely to cause speech and/or expressive and receptive language difficulties that will impact a person’s communication. When parts of the brain are damaged, individuals may present with impaired ability to understand what they hear, to express their own ideas, needs, and thoughts, to read, write or copy, to repeat or follow directions, to find the appropriate words to express themselves, etc. This loss of language function due to a brain injury in an area that is associated with the comprehension and production of language, is known as Aphasia
APHASIA
Aphasia is broadly classified as:
1. Fluent: Wernicke’s, Conduction, Transcortical sensory, and Anomic aphasia.
2. Non-fluent: Broca’s, Transcortical Motor, Isolation, and Global aphasia.
DYSPHAGIA
Dysphagia refers to Swallowing impairments and it can be classified as Oral, Pharyngeal, or Esophageal with severity ranging from Mild to Profound. Read more on Dysphagia.
DYSARTHRIA
Dysarthria: muscular weakness, slowness, or incoordination that affect all the basic processes of speech – respiration, phonation, resonance, articulation, and prosody. Speech errors result from a disruption in muscular control of the central and peripheral nervous systems.
APRAXIA
Apraxia of Speech refers to Speech errors that result from a disruption of the message from the motor cortex to the oral musculature.
It can be caused by a stroke, TBI, brain tumor, disease, or other event or condition.