Speech and Swallowing Therapy

Dignity Health offers advanced evaluation and customized treatment of adult diagnoses, including:

• Dysphagia-difficulty swallowing
• Voice disorders
• Motor speech disorders
• Modified barium swallow studies
• Problems associated with stroke including:
  • Dysarthria: Slurred speech or speech that is slow and difficult to understand
  • Apraxia: Neurological disorder causing difficulty controlling the muscles that create speech
  • Aphasia: The inability to comprehend and/or communicate through speech, writing or signs
  • Cognition/communication 

Other specialty services include:

• Specialized voice program and retraining with Visipitch
• AAC (alternative augmentative communication) devices evaluation and training
• LSVT LOUD therapy for Parkinson’s disease

For more information about Dignity Health's outpatient speech therapy services, call (916) 453-7944.