Hospital / Nursing Home Services
The Center's speech pathologists provide the speech pathology services to Forum Health at their Northside Medical Center, Colonial Drive Therapy Center, Tod Children's Hospital, Austintown Medical Park,
Beeghly Oaks Nursing Home and Beeghly Women & Infants Pavilion. The Center's speech pathologists provide both adult and pediatric inpatient and outpatient services. Those services include;
- Evaluation and treatment of swallowing disorders.
- Evaluation and treatment of communication problems resulting from strokes and other neurological disorders.
- Education and counseling to new laryngectomy patients.
- Evaluation and treatment of feeding disorders in babies and children.
- Speech language therapy for children.
- Management of children with cranio-anomalies including cleft palates as part of the Regional Cranio-Facial Team.
Support Groups
The Center provides support groups for those with communication disorders. These support groups facilitate the patient’s recovery and can be beneficial by providing educational and emotional support. Current support groups include:
- New Voice Club Support Group
- Stuttering Support Group
How do I know if my child has a speech disorder?
The following information provides general landmarks that might indicate a speech or language problem.
- The infant/child is not responding appropriately to the environment
- The infant does not display age-appropriate eating skills.
- The child is not talking at all by the age two.
- Speech is largely unintelligible after age three.
- There are many omissions of initial or final consonants after age three.
- There are no two or three word sentences by age three.
- Sounds are more than a year late in appearing, according to development sequence.
- There are many substitutions of easy sound for difficult ones after five.
- The child uses mostly vowel sounds in his speech.
- Word endings are consistently dropped after age five.
- Sentence structure is noticeably faulty at age five.
- The child is embarrassed and disturbed by their speech at any age.
- The child is noticeably non-fluent after age five.
- The child is distorting, omitting or substituting any sounds after age seven.
- The voice is monotone, extremely loud, largely inaudible or of poor quality.
- The pitch is not appropriate to the
child's sex and age.
- There is noticeable hypernasality or lack of nasal
resonance.
- There are unusual confusions, reversals or telescoping in connected speech.
- There is abnormal rhythm; rate and inflection after age five.
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The Youngstown Hearing & Speech Center provides
the finest State of the art speech language pathology services. The Center
has the largest staff of licensed and certified speech/language
pathologists in the Mahoning Valley. The Center’s speech
pathologists provide comprehensive consultation, evaluation and treatment of all communication disorders.
Pediatric Services
The Center is renown for its
pediatric speech language services . Every effort is made to involve
and inform parents and other
family members. Speech language
pathologists conduct therapy sessions in treatment rooms equipped
with a hidden camera and microphone. This allows parents in the
observation room to be part of the therapy program. The therapy rooms are also equipped so the speech language session can be videotaped and practiced at home.
The Center provides treatment
for a wide spectrum of speech/language disorders including
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Evaluation and treatment of infants, preschool
and school ages children.
- Feeding and Swallowing Evaluations and treatment.
- Augmentative communication evaluation/instruction.
- Speech/language therapy for articulation, stuttering,
expressive and or receptive disorders.
- Social Work support services when necessary.
Adult Speech Services
The Youngstown Hearing & Speech Center also provides specialized
speech language services for adults. These services
include:
- Laryngectomy Rehabilitation.
- Evaluation and Treatment of Communication problems resulting from
strokes
and other neurological disorders.
- Stuttering evaluation and treatment.
- Voice evaluation and treatment.
- Evaluation and treatment of swallowing disorders.
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