Neurological Impairments
Speech Language Pathologists, Speech Therapy, Pediatric Speech Therapist & Pediatric Speech Pathologists located in Kew Gardens, NY
You can lose speech and communication skills at any age if you develop a disease or suffer an injury that damages your brain and cause neurological impairments. If that happens, you can regain many (or all) of your skills with specialized therapy from Nathalia Fonseca, SLPD, CCC-SLP, TSSLD-BE, and the team at Bilingual Speech-Language & Swallowing Therapy in the Forest Hills neighborhood of New York City, New York. They have years of experience providing the cognitive and speech therapy needed to improve your speech and language abilities. Call the office or book an appointment online today.
Neurological impairments interfere with speech and language when they damage certain areas of the brain. The conditions responsible for acquired neurological disorders include:
A brain tumor may also cause speech disorders.
The brain area that’s damaged determines the type and severity of your speech or language disorder.
Acquired neurological speech disorders include:
When brain areas responsible for spoken language are damaged, often due to a stroke or traumatic brain injury, you develop trouble speaking, understanding speech, and problems with reading and writing.
Dysarthria occurs when the muscles needed to form words and speak weaken and stop working. As a result, you may have slurred or slow speech, lose control of voice volume, have a raspy or strained voice, or have difficulty moving your tongue and facial muscles.
Apraxia of speech occurs when your brain doesn’t communicate with the muscles needed for speech. As a result you can’t create the right sounds to produce words. The muscles aren’t weak, but they can’t move properly.
Difficulty swallowing means that you can’t move food through your mouth, down your throat, and into your stomach.
You lose your speech and language ability as you lose cognitive abilities, including memory, organization, and problem-solving skills.
In this condition, the muscles controlling your vocal cords spasm, changing the way your voice performs and sounds.
The speech therapists at Bilingual Speech-Language & Swallowing Therapy create tailored treatment plans based on your diagnosis.
This list gives you a few examples of the activities and goals your speech therapist might recommend to improve your speech and communication:
If you have a speech disorder caused by neurological impairments, call Bilingual Speech-Language & Swallowing Therapy or book an appointment online today.