Hampstead Rehabilitation Centre
The Speech Pathology Department
offers assessment and management of communication and swallowing disorders
to Hampstead Rehabilitation Centre’s inpatients.
Clients can be referred for assessment & management of the following disorders:
| Dysphagia |
An
impairment in eating and/or swallowing food, fluids and/or saliva. |
| Aphasia
|
An
impairment of language caused by brain injury to the dominant hemisphere
which results in difficulty understanding spoken or written information
and/or difficulty communicating verbally or in writing. |
| Verbal Dyspraxia
|
An
articulation impairment. Difficulty programming the positioning and sequencing
of muscle movements for voluntary production of speech. |
| Dysarthria
|
A
speech disorder caused by weakness or poor co-ordination of the muscles
used to produce speech as a result of damage to the central or peripheral
nervous system. It may affect respiration, phonation, articulation or
resonance. |
| Cognitive
Impairment
|
A
cognitive impairment acquired as a result of traumatic brain injury,
or hypoxic brain damage which may affect communication in terms of pragmatics,
turn taking, verbal reasoning, memory, tangentiality, perseveration,
verbosity. |
| Non-Dominant
Hemisphere Communication Disorder
|
An
impairment of communication caused by brain injury to the non-dominant
hemisphere which results in problems interpreting, integrating and organising
information often with inappropriate interpretation of the intention
and emotional content of communication. It can also affect pragmatics,
turn taking, verbal reasoning, memory, tangentiality, perseveration,
verbosity. |
| Voice Disorder
|
A
change in the quality/production of voice ranging from mild deviation
from what is considered normal (eg altered pitch, loudness, overall quality),
to total voice loss. The voice problem may be temporary or chronic and
may be the result of physical and/or functional changes. |
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Speech Pathology
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