Speech and Language Therapy

Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) can help with many things apart from speech...

  • Eating and drinking
    • Do you cough or choke during or after eating or drinking?
    • Does food or liquid “escape” from your mouth?
  • Voice
    • Does your voice ever “tail off”, get weak or tired?
    • Are you loud enough to make yourself hears in all situations?
    • Do you ever get hoarse or husky?
  • Fluency
    • Do you stammer or stumble over words?
  • Pragmatics
    • Is the style or content of what you say sometimes inappropriate?
  • Speech
    • Do you ever slur words?
    • Need any technology to help you express yourself?
  • Cognitive-linguistics
    • Do you …
      • forget words or people’s names?
      • have difficulty “keeping up” with a conversation?
      • have difficulty understanding what others sometimes say to you?
      • have difficulty following or remembering what you read?
      • find spelling difficult compared to the past?
      • have difficulty organising your words to express what you mean?

There are always strategies to make communication or swallowing easier.  Make an appointment to discuss any issues you have.  The person you communicate most with during the week is welcome to attend too as often there are tips that can help them as well.