Speech Therapy at Home

1. Improving Speech After Some Form of Brain Damage

The ability to speak is one of the most important skills humans rely on. Strokes can change that skill, and it’s not unusual for those changes to happen later in life as a result of an event like this. A stroke may damage parts of your brain responsible for speech functions – but there are different results depending on where the injury occurred

Aphasia is the general medical term for when a person loses their ability to express and understand speech due to disruption in brain’s pathways.

Expressive Aphasia happens when people can’t speak or have difficulty speaking, but they don’t show any change in understanding.

Your Speech Therapist will create an individual treatment plan that may include exercises like spoken, written or computer-based therapeutic activities so you’ll find your way back into communication again sooner rather than later!

2.  Improving Speech When There is a Muscular Problem

Dysarthria is the medical term for difficulty with a person’s speech. This condition arises from various causes, such as weakness or paralysis in muscles that produce sounds and difficulties with controlling vocal cords. Dysarthria can also be caused by changes to muscle tone in the speaker; this often results in slow-paced, low pitch voice patterns which are difficult to understand when spoken inappropriately fast or high pitched.

3.  Correcting Swallowing Problems

We all know that swallowing food and drink can be tough– it’s hard to keep things down sometimes. But when dysphagia sets in, not only is life difficult for the person with this condition, but they may also have difficulty keeping themselves safe from aspiration pneumonia! Symptoms of dysphagia include trouble swallowing solids or liquids alike as well as other symptoms such as nasal regurgitation which must be taken into account by a speech therapist during an evaluation process. Once a plan is in place you and your speech therapist can get to work on fixing the challenge!