Precision Speech Therapy

Premiere speech therapy clinic
in Forney, Texas
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Welcome to Precision Speech Therapy in Forney, Texas.

Our speech-language pathologists provide the full range of services for all matters related to communication, language and its use, cognitive concerns, and swallowing issues.

  • What is speech therapy?
Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) use speech therapy to address a wide range of issues surrounding speech, communication, cognition, and swallowing.

In their therapy clinics, speech therapy professionals work to prevent, assess, diagnose, and treat language, speech, social communication, cognitive-communication, and swallowing disorders in adults and children.

Customized Specialist Speech Therapy Services

Our speech-language pathologists customize treatment plans to address the following types of disorders in our speech development centers.

When a person has difficulty with self-expression (expressive language), understanding others (receptive language) in spoken or written form. After assessment, intervention can occur at levels of form, content, or and or appropriate usage. Fluency disorders including stuttering are also types of language disorders.

When an individual struggles with the social use of verbal and nonverbal communication, these fall under social communication disorders. These kinds of disorders include weakness in communicating for social purposes, adapting speech for audience and environment, and following conventions for conversation and story-telling. These are language-cognitive concerns. People with autism spectrum disorder and those with other conditions such as traumatic brain injury will have social communication disorders.

Trouble with attention, memory, planning, problem-solving, and organizing thoughts fall into cognitive-communication disorders. They tend to occur following a stroke, traumatic brain injury, or dementia, or they may be congenital.

Adults sometimes endure throat and swallowing impairments conjoined with laryngeal (throat) cancer and oral cancers, which bring difficulties with chewing, swallowing, and communicating. Many may be currently undergoing chemo and/or radiation treatments and using a feeding tube. Speech therapy during this time is crucial to maintain swallowing function and get off of the feeding tube as soon as possible. Patients who have undergone total or partial laryngectomy, hemiglossectomy, or surgical facial revisions may also benefit from speech therapy.
When children need help with better eating and swallowing, it’s known as feeding therapy. When adults need the same kind of intervention, it’s called dysphagia.

Young children sometimes struggle with getting their food down as their palate develops. Many kids are hypersensitive, particularly to varied textures – they like one kind of texture, and gag on everything else. Parents may also notice increased drooling, food falling from their kids’ mouths, or very picky eaters. In adults, dysphagia presents as starting to notice more coughing and choking while eating or the sensation that food is getting stuck. In extreme cases, the adult is forced to use a feeding tube and would like to return to eating again.
Most people don’t realize that language pathologists also generally offer swallowing and dysphagia therapy in their speech therapy clinics. We do. And because this service is so fundamental to life itself – learning to swallow your food – we particularly enjoy this kind of work.

If you or a loved one is experiencing difficulty getting their food down, regardless of age, we would love to provide an assessment and see if we can help the patient with their swallow disorder. Bring them in!

  • How long are speech therapy services needed?
In our first meeting together, your speech pathologist will conduct a speech therapy evaluation. In that assessment, we will review the patient’s existing case history, if any, and determine the severity of the communication disorder, cognitive-communication disorder, swallow disorder, voice disorder, or other type of language skill issue that may require speech therapy intervention.

We will also provide assessment on language hearing in our hearing clinic, as oftentimes speech pathology and audiology go together.
After we provide these assessments in our speech therapy clinic, we will determine an appropriate intervention to best help the patient. At that time, we will be better able to predict the speech therapy services necessary to overcome the presenting issue.
In general, length of needed therapy help varies considerably whether we’re helping child or adult. In the therapy program at Precision Speech Therapy, adults attend therapy sessions in our speech therapy center for about 6-12 weeks while child speech intervention usually requires about 6 months to a year.

The best speech pathologists know that a therapy program needs flexibility in duration of offered services, as people’s needs can change over time. As speech-language pathology professionals, we will provide the service as long as necessary for the patient to overcome the target barrier.

  • With whom do speech therapy professionals work?
At Precision Speech Therapy in Forney, Texas, we work with people of all ages and with all kinds of underlying causes for their speech therapy needs.
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Children

Our youngest patients are the tiniest humans of all. Sometimes the little ones have trouble learning to eat. They may have difficulty latching, gaining weight, or drinking from the bottle.

They may have feeding aversions, difficulty transitioning to solids, or general failure to thrive. A lot of these wee ones started life on the outside in an incubator, the truest kind of gift from above, and they’re not eating so great. When they become toddlers around the age of 2, we see them for language development. There’s a set of developmental milestones for 2-year-olds, so we see the kids that aren’t hitting them in time. School-aged kids present with errors in articulation and pronunciation. This translates to phonological impairments, which means difficulty reading, spelling, and general language development. They may also need help with phonology of English’s more difficult letters. We help teens with communication skills, and provide support when academic performance appears to have causes in cognitive functioning.

Adults

We work with adults with neurological impairments resulting from traumatic brain injury, stroke, or a progressive neurological disease such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s. We address cognitive issues as well as linguistic ones in these therapy sessions.

We also work with people with swallowing issues. Perhaps they’re choking more than before or spilling more food, or perhaps they’re on a feeding tube and undergoing chemo-radiation therapy for laryngeal cancer. Whatever the underlying cause, we love to work with people to get their nutrition into their bodies.

Visit Precision Speech Therapy in Forney

If you or a loved one is exhibiting signs of any of these disorders, please contact us right away. We’ll get that person in for an assessment and, if appropriate, begin a course of therapy to correct the issue. We look forward to working with you!
CALL (469) 414-5012
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Forney Medical Plaza Building 2, 757 E U.S. Highway 80, Suite 160, Room A, Forney, Texas 75126
© 2024, Precision Speech Therapy. All Rights Reserved.

Forney Medical Plaza Building 2, 757 E U.S. Highway 80, Suite 160, Room A, Forney, Texas 75126