Loyola Medicine

Speech and language pathologists provide evaluation and therapy services for individuals with communication, cognitive and/or swallowing impairments from newborns through the elderly. Loyola's experienced, certified and licensed speech/language pathologists are committed to your speech impairment prevention, rehabilitation and education.

A physician's referral is required to begin therapy services.

Specialty Programs

Participants with a variety of diagnoses can benefit from our comprehensive speech and language therapy treatments:

• Burns
• Head and Neck Cancer
• Neurological disorders resulting in need for cognitive retraining, aphasia therapy, and/or swallowing intervention
• Dysphagia (swallowing/feeding) disorders
• Motor speech disorder (dysarthria, apraxia of speech)
• Organic and functional voice disorders
• Tracheotomy/Ventilator swallowing and speaking valves

Treatment Techniques

Our programs emphasize an individualized approach with tailored treatments. Your treatment may include:

• Speech and Language Production
• Cognitive-Linguistic Therapy
• Dysphagia (swallowing) therapy
• Videoflouroscopic Swallow Study
• Passy-Muir Valve
• Neuromuscular E-Stim
• Voice ProstheticsFeeding Groups for swallowing therapy
• Establishing augmentative /alternative communication systems

Special to Pediatrics Patients

Both inpatient and outpatient speech and language therapy services for children are provided through the Ronald McDonald® Children's Hospital of Loyola University Medical Center. Caring for children offers unique challenges. Treatments may include:

• Enhancing oral-motor/swallowing skills
• Establishing augmentative/alternative communication systems
• Facilitation of language articulation, cognitive and voice skills