Speech Language Pathology Services
The Youngstown Hearing & Speech Center provides the finest pediatric and adult speech-language pathology services. YHSC has the largest staff of licensed speech-language pathologists in the Mahoning Valley providing comprehensive consultation, evaluation and treatment for communication and feeding disorders.
Pediatric Speech Services
YHSC is renowned for it's pediatric speech-language services. 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 that the speech-language session can be videotaped and practiced at home.
YHSC provides treatment for a wide spectrum of speech language services, including:
- Evaluation and treatment of infants, preschool and school age children.
- Feeding and swallowing evaluations and treatment.
- Augmentative and alternative communication evaluation/instruction.
- Speech/language therapy for articulation, stuttering, auditory processing, receptive language disorders and orofacial myofunctional disorders.
- Social work support services.
- T.O.P.S., a multi-disciplinary program incorporating occupational, physical and speech therapies for children age birth to 5 years.
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Adult Speech Services
The Youngstown Hearing & Speech Center also provides specialized speech/language services for adults including:
- 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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Hospital Speech Services
YHSC speech pathologists provide the speech pathology services to Forum Health at the Northside Medical Center and the Austintown Medical Park sites. YHSC 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.
- Speech-language therapy for children.
- VitalStim therapy for adult outpatients with swallowing disorders.
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Support Groups
YHSC 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 Support Group for Laryngectomee's
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How Do I Know If My Child Has A Speech-Language 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/child does not display age-appropriate feeding skills.
- The child is not talking at all by 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 the developmental sequence.
- There are many substitutions of easily produced sounds for difficult ones after the age of five.
- The child uses mostly vowel sounds in his/her 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 gender and age.
- There is noticeable hypernasality or lack of nasal resonance.
- There is abnormal rhythm; rate and inflection after age five.
If you would like to ask a question or to have a speech pathologist contact you, please contact cthomas@yohsc.com
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