Speech and Hearing Therapy

Speech and hearing therapy services focus on enhancing or restoring limited or lost communicative skills or swallowing capabilities lost due to injury, disease, aging or congenital abnormality. Easter Seals licensed speech therapists incorporate the use of special facilitory techniques, augmentative and assistive equipment, therapeutic exercise and evaluation tools. Treatment focuses on:

• Addressing disabilities in children, including articulation disorders, language delay and stuttering, and feeding problems
• Providing care to adults who may experience communication disorders, stuttering and cognitive impairment
• Improving oral-motor, swallowing and respiratory skills
• Providing augmentative and alternative communication systems to individuals who cannot rely on speech (hearing) as a means of communication

Services may be provided in an Easter Seals outpatient clinic, child development center, or adult day program, as well as at home, at school, and in a variety of other care settings. State and federal laws determine referral requirements and funding opportunities.

Learn more about speech and hearing therapy.
Learn about speech and hearing therapy and autism.
Meet an Easter Seals speech therapist in action.
Visit the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.