At St. Luke’s, our speech and language evaluations put
patients young and old on the road to success. Our speech-language clinicians
assess communication problems through observations, tests and/or by asking the
right questions to gather information on health history, developmental history,
family, speech and language behaviors.
Speech and
Language Evaluation Benefits
Through this evaluation, patients can:
- Improve
communication ability
- Improve tone and
speech patterns
- Increase fluency
Helping Patients Thrive
A speech and language evaluation is beneficial for patients
with:
- Traumatic brain
injuries (TBI)
- Central auditory
dysfunction
- Difficulty
hearing speech in noise
- Hearing loss
(transient or permanent)
- Hypersensitivity
to sounds
- Tinnitus
- Difficulty with
social communications
- Aprosodia
- Dysprosody
- Dysarthria
- Distorted speech
- Laryngeal
hyper/hypofunction