Speech Therapy Home Health Care
Beyond Home Care
Welcome to our Family!
What is Adult Speech Therapy?
Adults may experience speech and language difficulties for a variety of reasons. Information about specific types of speech and language differences and disorders, as well as conditions that cause them is included below.
Adult Speech Therapy focuses on receptive language, or the ability to understand words spoken to you, and expressive language, or the ability to use words to express yourself. It also deals with the mechanics of producing words, such as articulation, pitch, fluency, and volume. Adults may need speech therapy after a stroke or traumatic accident that changes their ability to use language. Many adults live with, or acquire communication difficulties. Some have had good skills where communication was easy, and through illness or accident, communication has become very difficult. Other adults have had to endure communication difficulties all their lives.
Some conditions that affect your Speech
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
- Alzheimer's
- Apraxia
- Auto Accident
- Cerebral Palsey
- Dementia
- Dysarthria
- Huntington's Disease
- Laryngeal Cancer
- Lou Gehrig's Disease
- Mutiple Sclerosis
- Oral Cancer
- Parkinson's
- Stroke
- Traumatic Brain Injury
Can Parkinson's Disease affect your speech?
Yes, Parkinson's is a fatal and incurable brain disease that affects between one percent and two percent of people over the age of 65. It often affects the patient's ability to speak clearly, and sufferers also have tremors, sluggish movement, muscle stiffness and difficulty with balance.
Learn more about Dysarthria.
Dysarthria is a condition where muscle weakness in the jaw and mouth area cause problems with speaking.Dysarthria is often the result of a disease like cerebral palsey, multiple sclerosis, Lou Gehrig's Disease or a stroke or accident causing damage to the brain. One way to improve the muscle movements is an activity that uses oral motor therapy. Affinity Speech Therapists asks the patient to pretend he/she is a mirror. The patient is to mimic the movements the instructor makes. These movements include making silly faces, smiling and frowning, blowing kisses and using the tongue to lick all the way around the lips. This is a fun activity that exercises necessary mouth muscles to improve speech function.
Can Parkinson's Disease affect your speech?
Yes, Parkinson's is a fatal and incurable brain disease that affects between one percent and two percent of people over the age of 65. It often affects the patient's ability to speak clearly, and sufferers also have tremors, sluggish movement, muscle stiffness and difficulty with balance.
Learn more about Dysarthria.
Dysarthria is a condition where muscle weakness in the jaw and mouth area cause problems with speaking.Dysarthria is often the result of a disease like cerebral palsey, multiple sclerosis, Lou Gehrig's Disease or a stroke or accident causing damage to the brain. One way to improve the muscle movements is an activity that uses oral motor therapy. Affinity Speech Therapists asks the patient to pretend he/she is a mirror. The patient is to mimic the movements the instructor makes. These movements include making silly faces, smiling and frowning, blowing kisses and using the tongue to lick all the way around the lips. This is a fun activity that exercises necessary mouth muscles to improve speech function.
What is Apraxia?
Another speech problem that adults can have is apraxia or motor speech disorder. This condition is caused by damage to the speech-related areas of the brain. Patients with apraxia have difficulty putting the sounds of syllables together to make words. Therapists engage patients in an activity that slows down the pace of speech and practices sounds over and over. The patient reads a list of simple sentences while a metronome taps out a slow pattern of speech. The patient repeats the first sentence over and over to the beat of the metronome. When the first sentence is mastered, he moves on the next sentence.
Fill out this form below.
We're ready to answer your questions
...
