Redmond Speech & Language offers comprehensive evaluation and treatment of a broad array of speech and language disorders for both children and adults. The use of technology plays an important role in evaluation and treatment in our clinic. We are highly adept in the use of iPad technology to aid communication across disorders. We actively seek to collaborate with families and other professionals to effectively meet each individual’s needs by ensuring the use of evidence based practice. If you are a new client, be sure to check out our insurance information and online resources pages.
- An impairment of language, affecting the production or comprehension of speech and the ability to read or write. Aphasia is always due to injury to the brain-most commonly from a stroke.
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- Apraxia is a significant difficulty in motor planning. In a speech apraxia, this means that there is not necessarily any difficulty with muscle strength or any structural abnormalities. There may not be any phonological processing errors. However, there are errors in coordination. This often results in inconsistent errors in speech sound production and highly unintelligible speech.
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- Use of high or low tech devices to assist (augment) existing verbal communication, or provide the ability to communicate using language where it does not yet exist (alternative communication).
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- Attention
- Memory
- Executive functions
- Processing/processing speed
- Visuospatial skills
- Organization/planning
- Click for more information on cognitive deficits caused by Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) or Right Hemisphere Brain Damage (RHD)
- Memory loss and difficulty with cognitive processing.
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- Muscle weakness affecting the ability to speak clearly that can be the result of brain injury, cerebral palsy, degenerative diseases, or other syndromes.
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- Difficulty regulating the process of taking food or fluids into the mouth, chewing/controlling the bolus (food/fluid), and safely swallowing without aspiration.
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- Stuttering: Disruption in the fluent production of connected speech.
- Cluttering: Dysfluencies that don’t follow the typical pattern of stuttering and are characterized by abnormally rapid and/or irregular rate.
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- Vocal cord dysfunction (VCD)
- Vocal nodules, lesions etc
- Hypophonia
- Dysphonia
- Chronic laryngitis
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