Speech Therapy
The Speech Language Pathologists at Key Rehab assist patients in the areas of speech and language skills, swallowing, memory, and cognition. Speech Therapists evaluate and diagnose a wide range of communication and swallowing disorders, including those due to trauma or stroke. Speech Therapy also assists patients with cognitive disorders that impair problem solving, and short or long term memory.
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Speech therapy focuses on the following:
• Saying sounds and words that cannot be understood
• Understanding language and following directions
• Expressing ideas, emotions, wants, and needs
• Developing appropriate social skills
• Written language
• Alternative and augmentative communication (AAC)
ranging from low-tech to high-tech communication
devices for non-verbal children
• Fluency (stuttering)
• Voice disorders
• Rehabilitation for children with hearing loss
• Oral motor issues
• Safe feeding and swallowing
• Cognition (attention, memory, problem solving, etc.)
Maria Smilo | MS, CCC-SLP Owner
Jodi Kelley | MS, CCC-SLP
Kristy Arthur | MS, CCC-SLP
Ashley Wilkerson | MS, CCC-SLP
April Swilley | MS, CCC-SLP