Pediatric Speech and Language Services
Pediatric Speech and Language Services, part of the Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital Outpatient Therapy Center, focus on parent education for language stimulation techniques used with pediatric patients (newborn and up). Our services teach parents strategies that help promote language skills, modeling of appropriate techniques, and collaboration with other providers such as schools, day care, and Early On.
Services Summarized
Our multi-disciplinary therapy staff has extensive training and experience in treating patients with communication disorders.
Services Include
- Evaluation and/or treatment
- Family and caregiver education
- Collaboration with other providers
Who Uses These Services
Children with a diagnosis of:
- Traumatic brain injury
- Cerebral palsy
- Sensory dysfunction
- Feeding disorders
- Autism
- Birth-related conditions
- Neurological disorders
- Genetic conditions
- Post-concussion
- Speech/language delay due to medical diagnosis
Services Explained
To be seen, a patient must first have his or her condition evaluated by a physician who writes a prescription for evaluation and/or treatment.
Download an Outpatient Referral/Prescription FAX Form.
Evaluation and/or Treatment
- Case history
- Auditory comprehension
- Behavior/cognition
- Expression - verbal and graphic
- Oral motor
- Feeding
- Articulation
- Hearing screen
- Voice/fluency
- Pragmatics
- Gestural communication
- Language
- Training for use of augmentative communication device
Family and caregiver education
We consider family involvement to be a key component of our program. We provide training and support to ensure that the child’s treatment is able to continue at home, at child care, and in other settings.
Also Available at Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital
We may recommend other specialists and programs available at Mary Free Bed. Psychology, videostroboscopy, and videofluoroscopic swallow study are among the other services available. The Rehab Technology Center can provide an augmentative communication evaluation.
Contact Pediatric Speech and Language Services
For more information or to make a referral, please contact the Speech and Language Program at:
Phone
616.242.0366 - or - 800.668.6001
Email
Peds.Outpatient@MaryFreeBed.com
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