What is speech therapy?

What is speech therapy?

A speech therapist, also known as a Speech-language pathologist (SLP), treats many cognitive and communicative function deficiencies and swallowing problems.

Speech therapists help individuals with communication challenges, both in how they speak and how they understand communication. SLPs also work with chewing and swallowing concerns, articulation, auditory processing, and social skills.

At Bridge Physical Therapy in South Ogden, UT, our highly trained therapists can assist individuals in improving their speaking and listening abilities, whether it is to retrain cognitive skills like remembering and finding words, raising the loudness and/or quality of their voice to help you be more social and communicate better.

Speech therapy is used to improve chewing and swallowing to preserve the pleasures of eating after a brain injury, stroke, or brain tumor, or in conjunction with degenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.