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What is Speech Therapy?

Speech Therapy (or Speech Language Pathology) helps people improve their communication skills, so they can fully understand and participate in the world around them.

How does Speech Therapy help adults?

We help adults with:

  • Communication problems after a concussion, stroke, brain injury, or illness
  • Swallowing disorders: difficulty chewing, difficulty swallowing foods, coughing or choking after swallowing, foods sticking in your throat
  • Cognitive communication disorders: Difficulty with cognition and language related language, including difficulty recalling what was said, difficulty comprehending, difficulty with verbal reasoning, difficulty with concentrating on conversation
  • Stuttering/fluency disorders: Difficulty with speech fluency, repeating words / partial words, difficulty getting words out, extra non speech noises
  • Voice disorders: hoarse or harsh vocal quality, nasal vocal quality, problems with vocal loudness
  • Communication following a laryngectomy, as well as rehab following treatment for head and neck cancers

How does Speech Therapy help kids?

As part of CMH’s Pediatric Rehabilitation Program, we help kids with:

  • Language disorders: Not meeting language developmental milestones in the expected timeframe, difficulty communicating, difficulty with grammar, difficulty comprehending language, difficulty reading, difficulty writing.
  • Articulation disorders: Difficulty pronouncing words correctly, substituting sounds, difficult to understand
  • Swallowing disorders: Difficulty nursing/taking bottle, Difficulty advancing to solid foods, difficulty chewing, coughing, gagging, choking frequently, messy eating, reduced oral motor skills for eating
  • Stuttering: Difficulty with speech fluency, repeating words/partial words, difficulty getting words out, extra non speech noises
  • Voice disorders: hoarse vocal quality, nasal vocal quality, vocal loudness issues
  • Concussion, brain injury, and stroke rehab
  • Social communication disorders: difficulty with social skills, figurative language, expected social behaviors
Specialized Speech Therapy Programs in Cloquet
Click on each program name below to learn more about how Speech Therapy can help:
Concussion Rehabilitation

A concussion is a traumatic injury that temporarily impacts normal brain function. Common symptoms include:

  • Headache
  • Nausea
  • Balance problems
  • Dizziness
  • Sensitivity to light or noise
  • Vision problems
  • Difficulty remembering or concentrating

Our physical, occupational, and speech therapies offer comprehensive evaluations and treatments to help patients manage and overcome concussion symptoms.

Talk to your primary care provider about a referral to Concussion Rehabilitation

Feeding Program

Mealtime challenges make family bonding stressful. Together, our Occupational and Speech Therapists help patients from infancy through age 18 overcome their feeding challenges with custom, evidence-based recommendations.

A feeding evaluation at CMH includes:

  • Observing the child eating
  • Discussions with the family
  • Oral-motor, swallowing, and sensory processing assessments

Our goal is to teach patients that mealtimes can be fun, and to introduce new foods safely and gradually. Our strategies include:

  • Exercises to support the development of the muscles in the mouth, jaw, tongue, lips and cheeks
  • Interventions for sensory challenges
  • Recommendations for alternative positioning or use of different bottles, cups, utensils, or plates.

Talk to your primary care provider about a referral to CMH’s Feeding Program

Pediatric Rehabilitation

CMH’s play-based, child-centered rehab program makes learning and developing skills fun & motivating.

From infants to teens, our team helps children develop the skills they need to thrive, including:

  • Fine motor skills (including feeding)
  • Visual processing skills
  • Self-care skills (such as feeding, grooming and dressing)
  • Social skills and self regulations play skills, and social skills

Talk to your child’s primary care provider about a referral to Pediatric Rehab at CMH.

LSVT BIG & LOUD

Two symptoms of Parkinson’s disease are speech/voice difficulties and a loss of motor skills. Your voice gets quieter and your movements are slower and smaller in size, making everyday activities a challenge.

Our rehabilitation team is trained and certified in the LSVT BIG & LOUD programs to help you gain improvements in speech and mobility.

LSVT LOUD is an intensive speech therapy program. Treatment sessions with a certified speech therapist can help you:

  • Improve vocal loudness
  • Improve speech clarity
  • Increase facial expression

Participation in the program takes four weeks, including

  • 16 individualized, one-hour sessions (four times a week for four weeks)
  • Daily, personalized ‘homework’
  • Daily carryover exercises

For more information about LSVT LOUD, please call 218-878-7010 or talk to your primary care provider about a referral.

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Inside Hospital on 1st Floor
512 Skyline Boulevard
Cloquet, MN 55720

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