Program Goals
- Enhance the patient's quality of life through the development or improvement of effective and functional communication skills.
- Increase independence with life skills tasks, i.e. safety awareness, budgeting, community reentry.
- Identify and develop an individualized program for swallowing disorders to ensure safe eating with the most appropriate diet.
Therapy Services
Therapy services include the following areas:
- Speech:
- Dysphagia:
- Language:
- Receptive and expressive aphasia
- Developmental language delay
- Cognitive Linguistic:
- Immediate and delayed recall-memory
- Attention/concentration
- Judgment/reasoning difficulties
- Thought organization
- Safety awareness