Adult Neurological Speech Therapy Programs
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Welcome to Speech and Voice Enterprises |
Do you have a family member who has a language disorder or speech problem due to having a stroke, brain injury or other diagnosis?
Does your family member experience frustration with their communication skills or level of independence?
Speech and Voice Enterprises has extensive experience working with adults and their family members providing education and therapy for individuals recovering from a stroke, brain injury, has dementia, swallowing difficulties, or other neurological issue.
Our adult speech therapy programs improve: |
Speech therapy promotes independence |
- Articulation and speech problems
- Language disorders
- Processing and understanding
- Expressive language
- Establishing different modes for communication skills
- Facilitating thinking and memory skills
- Safe independent living
- Community integration and safety awareness
- Family training, home and environment set-up for maximum safety and independence
Speech and Voice Enterprises incorporates a full team approach involving a speech therapist, family members, physicians, home health aids and other important people in your family member’s life. We work as a team so everyone uses the same language, strategies and communication style with your family member. |
Improving language discorders and speech problems with real life activites |
Our speech therapy activities focus on practical themes and lifestyle while including daily life skills and community principals.
A home program is included for additional practice of new skills.
Call us today. We would be happy to listen to your concerns and offer solutions how we can be of help. |
Speech therapy to improve brain injury |
| Regarding Medical Insurance |
| Fee for service is collected at each appointment. It is our pleasure to provide a statement for insurance companies or flexible medical spending accounts for reimbursement. We are not a Medicare provider.
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Review the table of contents
Elizabeth Peterson, Author, National Trainer |
Functional Learning for the Home and Community, 2nd edition
(Peterson, Elizabeth and Villegas, Brenda. 2002, 1998)
This is an adult and adolescent cognitive and language program specializing in activities for the home and community. Functional real life and practical activities are provided for individuals functioning at a basic skill level while tasks progress to higher functional community/vocational skills.
This book contains 7 chapters:
- Building Basic Skills
- Memory
- Real Life Reading and Writing
- Facilitating Insight and Awareness
- Executive and Higher Functioning Skills
- Community Integration
- Family Education and Training
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F.A.S.T. Functional Adult Screening Tool
(Peterson, Elizabeth. 2004)
This is a specific language and cognitive profile to be used by speech-language pathologists and occupational therapists to evaluate neurologically impaired adults. The assessment only takes 30 minutes and the CD allows for printing the portions you want to use. No other materials are required because you use items available in the environment.
The language portion allows you to assess:
- Following Directions
- Vocabulary
- Sentence and Conversational Topics Through Real Life Measures
The cognitive portion allows you to assess:
- Orientation
- Attention
- Biographical, Short Term and Long Term Memory
- New Learning.
- Problem Solving and Reasoning
- Functional Reading and Writing Form Included
*This assessment is Medicare and F.I.M. friendly and sets you up to measure small increments of improvement for documentation. Only 30 minutes to administer.
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Elizabeth Peterson, Author, National Presenter |
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