Services Available

Carrie provides services to individuals of all ages with a wide variety of speech, language, and swallowing differences and disorders.  Speech-language pathology services may include screening, assessment, treatment, collaboration with your doctor, counseling, prevention and wellness, and implementation of technology to enhance communication. A noncomprehensive list of speech-language pathology service delivery areas that Carrie may address for her patients include:

• Fluency (stuttering, cluttering)

• Speech Production (motor-planning, articulation, phonological disorders)

• Language - Spoken and Written Language (listening, speaking, reading, writing, & pragmatics)

• Cognition (Attention, Memory, Problem-solving, Executive Functioning)

• Voice (Phonation quality, Pitch, Loudness, Alaryngeal voice, Resonance)

• Feeding and Swallowing (atypical eating- food selectivity/refusal)

• Auditory Habilitation/Rehabilitation (communication skills impacted by hearing loss, deafness)

• Potential etiologies of communication and swallowing disorders:

  • neonatal problems (e.g. prematurity, low birth weight, substance exposure)

  • developmental disabilities (specific language impairment, autism spectrum disorder, dyslexia, learning disabilities, attention-deficit disorder, intellectual disabilities, unspecified neurodevelopmental disorders)

  • disorders of aerodigestive tract function (e.g. irritable larynx, chronic cough, abnormal respiratory patterns or airway protection, paradoxical vocal fold motion, tracheostomy)

  • oral anomalies (e.g. cleft lip/palate, oral-motor dysfunction)

  • neurological disease/dysfunction (e.g., traumatic brain injury, cerebral palsy, cerebrovascular accident, Parkinson's disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis)

  • genetic disorders (e.g. Down syndrome, fragile X syndrome, Rett syndrome)

Source:  American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Scope of Practice