Is choosing VTP for Speech Therapy right for me?

If you are suffering from voice, cognitive-language, verbal expression, and/or swallowing difficulties, then choosing VTP’s Speech-Language Pathology (commonly called “Speech Therapy”) Program will help you maximize your independence and quality of life. Working with people of all ages using creative and engaging treatment plans, VTP’s highly trained speech therapists will help you, your parents, or your children fully embrace the communicative and adaptive processes that will drive your success. With a one-on-one focus on your unique challenges, our seasoned therapist will help you:
- Restore voice and speech
- Enhance verbal expression
- Improve chewing and swallowing
- Increase cognitive and linguistic functioning
- Adapt to and overcome limitations
Our speech therapists are experts in successfully guided patients toward their maximum functioning capacity. This is especially true for patients suffering from speech and swallowing issues (including dysphagia, dysarthria, apraxia, neuro-cognitive challenges, vocal strain, etc.) stemming from conditions such as:
- Childhood communication issues
- Developmental cognitive issues
- Oral-motor neuromuscular issues
- Voice disorders
- Geriatric cognitive decline
- Stroke
- Traumatic brain and spinal cord injury
- Alzheimer’s disease and dementia
- Parkinson’s Disease
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Progressive neurologic disorders
- Head and neck cancer
- Oral and laryngeal trauma
- Voice strain and vocal cord damage
- Other medical conditions that affect swallowing
Speech Therapy goals for success
Voice & Speech
- Restore voice, speaking volume, amplitude, tone, and pitch
- Minimize hoarseness, pain, and vocalization challenges


Cognitive-Linguistics
- Maximize oral and written language expression and understanding
- Develop and/or restore cognition, memory, and problem-solving capabilities
Language Expression & Reception
- Enhance pronunciation, articulation, listening, and understanding
- Correct stuttering and fluency issues and associated primary and secondary behaviors


Swallowing & Oral-Motor Neuromuscular Function
- Develop oral neuromuscular pathways for enhanced speaking, chewing, and swallowing
- Promote swallowing functions for safely eating/drinking without choking concerns
Adaptation via Augmentative & Alternative Communication (AAC)
- Aided: utilize augmentative speech-language technologies to assist/enhance communcation
- Unaided: harness alternative self/bodily communication techniques for effective language expression and reception


LSVT LOUD Program for Parkinson’s Disease
- Intensive, high-amplitude, high-effort speech training to establish effective communication
- Recalibration training of neuroplastic sensory feedback to embolden normalized speech