| "Our goal is for the patients and their families to become their own therapists. Therapy shouldn’t last forever. It should be a process that leads to patient self-practice and recovery."
-Julie Blair, speech-language pathologist |
Speech-language pathology at the Evelyn Trammell Institute provides comprehensive adult in-patient and out-patient services. Services are provided for patients who are hospitalized with speech-language disorders that may result from cancer treatment, stroke, head trauma, anoxic events and neurological disease.
We provide treatment for:  Voice
Cognitive deficits
Dysarthria
Aphasia
Apraxia
Memory disorders
Language
We provide therapy in the following areas:
Training of speech, language, voice and swallowing functions
Application of communication devices and mechanisms for patients with tracheostomy tubes, such as speaking valves, communication boards or alaryngeal devices |
