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Services offered at Speech Pathways
include:
• Alaryngeal
speech care assisting with
acquisition of alternative voicing strategies
following laryngectomy. •
Articulation and phonologic process
intervention helping children
and adults learn proper speech sound production
patterns. • Auditory
processing treatment helping
clients improve their listening, cognitive, and
phonemic awareness skills. •
Birth to three intervention
helping infants and preschoolers
develop pre-speech, pre-language, interactive
communication and feeding skills.
• Cochlear implant care
helping implanted clients recognize and learn
speech following implant procedures.
• Dialectal revision
assisting foreign and national
dialect speakers use Standard English speech sound
pronunciation and intonation patterns.
• Language intervention
improving receptive and expressive language skills
in children and special needs clients.
• Literacy training
improving reading and writing
performance in school-aged children.
• Neurological and
cognitive therapy improving
motor speech movements, language and/or cognition
resulting from stroke, apraxia, ataxia, dysarthria,
aphasia, Parkinson’s disease, ALS, head
injury and other neurological difficulties.
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Preschool speech, hearing and
vision screening assisting
schools and / or parents interested in
early identification of children’s speech,
hearing or vision difficulties. •
Special needs services
helping people with Down Syndrome, pervasive developmental
disorder, autism and other complex disorders develop
speech and language.
• State-of-the-art computer
technology including Fast ForWord, Away
We Go, Earobics, Zoophonics and more, helping
clients improve listening, associative thinking,
auditory processing and phonemic awareness.
• Stuttering treatment
helping disfluent communicators speak more fluently
through traditional treatment activities and the
new SpeechEasy® device. • Swallowing
intervention helping individuals rehabilitate
swallow problems following illness, stroke or
injury. • Tongue
thrust intervention teaching clients how
to change swallow patterns to improve dental malocclusion
and associated speech problems. •
Voice care remediating vocal nodules, polyps,
laryngitis, spasmodic dysphonia, vocal fold paralysis
and other voice disorders. The Voice Care Center
of Houston is located at Speech Pathways. See
more under our Special Services section.
• Vocal image enhancement
helping public speakers enhance communication
effectiveness through improved pitch, projection,
resonance, vocal balance, accent modification
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