Speech language pathology services
The pediatric speech-language pathologist provides evaluation and treatment to children and adolescents who are demonstrating speech, language, or feeding disorders due to a developmental delay, motor delay, or injury.
At Advocate Children’s Hospital, our speech-language pathologists have specialty training in pediatrics and exclusively treat children who experience challenges with feeding, swallowing, language, fluency, speech-sound production, and voice.
When we meet your child, we will conduct evaluations and therapy sessions with a holistic, family-centered approach to put your child at ease and to ensure they experience the best possible progress. Our therapists collaborate with a multidisciplinary team that includes families, physicians, and other medical professionals in both inpatient and outpatient environments. They exemplify our value of excellence by completing advanced competency training to further their expertise.
Our speech-language pathologists evaluate and treat infants and adolescents who have feeding, cognitive, or language deficits related to their hospital stay. We also provide services on an outpatient basis.
Outpatient Therapy
We address your child's needs in a variety of ways – from diagnostic studies to joint treatment plans – with physical or occupational therapy. Services include, but are not limited to:
- Animal-assisted therapy
- Augmentative and alternative communication devices
- Co-treatment with behavioral therapy
- Co-treatment with music therapy
- Co-treatment with occupational therapy or physical therapy
- Fiberoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of the Swallow (FEES)
- Infant massage
- Nasoendoscopy
- Orofacial myofunctional therapy
- Passy-Muir Valve™ evaluations
- Pediatric clinical swallow evaluations
- Pediatric videofluoroscopic swallow studies
- Picture Exchange Communication Systems (PECS)
- Respiratory or feeding therapy for motorically involved children
- Sequential Oral Sensory Approach to Feeding™
- Social pragmatic language groups
- VitalStim™ therapy
Our speech-language pathologists address a wide variety of disorders, including:
- Acquired neurological disorders
- Apraxia of speech (difficulty with the physical act of speaking)
- Articulation disorders
- Expressive and receptive language disorders
- Feeding and swallowing disorders (dysphagia)
- Fluency disorders (stuttering)
- Oral motor impairments
- Phonological disorders
- Pragmatic language disorders
- Processing disorders
- Resonance disorders
- Sensory-based feeding disorders
- Voice disorders
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