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Speech and language disorders affect a person’s ability to speak, understand, write and read. These disorders have a range of causes and may vary from a few speech sound errors to a total loss of the ability to speak and communicate effectively.
Our Speech Therapy Department offers experienced staff to work with a variety of impairments that affect a person’s ability to communicate effectively and swallow safely. The CMH Speech Therapy Department provides evaluation and treatment services to children and adults.
Appointments are by referral only. Please contact your primary care provider to initiate an appointment.
Whether your child is having difficulty developing communication or swallowing skills, or has had an injury, accident, or illness where they need to relearn these skills, our speech therapy team is here for you. We know children learn best through play, so we will motivate your child to develop to their full potential through fun play-based activities.
We frequently help children with:
Adults generally seek speech therapy after an illness or injury changes their ability to communicate or swallow. At times, adults need speech therapy services for gradual changes through aging or unknown causes.
We frequently help adults with:
Are you experiencing sleepiness, nausea, more frequent headaches, dizziness, difficulty concentrating or mental fog, sensitivity to light or noise, or vision problems? You may be experiencing the effects of a concussion: a traumatic injury causing the temporary loss of normal brain function.
Early intervention is crucial to concussion patients’ recovery. The CMH Concussion Rehabilitation Program works with this concept in mind—offering compensatory techniques
As part of the program, speech therapy assesses and treats impairments involving concentration, processing speed, memory, reading comprehension, word retrieval, reasoning, critical thinking, and range of motion.
Ask your physician for a referral to the CMH Concussion Rehabilitation Program.
The challenges that may accompany COVID-19 can continue for many weeks or months following a diagnosis and can drastically impact a person’s well being and ability to conduct their daily life.
Speech Therapy can help you take your life back! Our interventions include:
Mealtime challenges make family bonding stressful. Together, our Occupational and Speech Therapists are helping patients from infancy through age 18 overcome their feeding challenges with custom, evidence based recommendations.
CMH’s Feeding Program combines the expertise of occupational and speech therapists (SLPs) to address difficulties with mealtime, including
Feeding challenges may arise due to a variety of causes such as premature birth, reflux/stomach problems, developmental conditions, and more.
It’s possible to bring joy back to family mealtime. A feeding evaluation at CMH includes:
Our goal is to teach patients that mealtimes can be fun, and to introduce new foods safely and gradually. Our teaching strategies support development of the muscles in the mouth, jaw, tongue, lips and cheeks to make eating easier and address any texture sensitivities to food. We use a variety of tools to help with sensory challenges that may be impacting mealtimes. We also offer recommendations for alternative positioning or use of different bottles, cups, utensils, or plates.
Five year old Thomas Power, who struggled with chronic ear infections as an infant, developed difficulty hearing. This affected his speech development and that of his younger brother, Joey–who patterned his communication.
Together, the two boys underwent speech therapy with CMH therapists Deb Braun and Karen Hartung. Their mom, Terese Power, said, “They met Joey and Thomas’s needs and really worked to identify different methods of engaging the boys.” The personalized approach, Terese said, made the experience fun for the boys and introduced tips and tools for the boys to continue working with once they finished therapy.
Speech-Language Pathology
8 am-5 pm, M-F
218-878-7010
khartung@cmhmn.org
Physician’s referral required.