Benefits
No matter how rural the area, we endeavor to provide evaluation and speech therapy at the highest level of evidenced-based service provision to ALL of Missouri either with teletherapy or in-person mobile outpatient services.
We endeavor to provide expert-level therapy services to enhance quality of life and wellness in others in a way that gives glory to the Lord.
About the Founder
Allison has been a speech-language pathologist in Missouri and Illinois for more than 18 years. She works with all age ranges and has had experience in directorship roles in inpatient rehab, skilled nursing facilities, assisted and independent living facilities. Allison enjoys advocating on a patient’s behalf to insurance companies, collaborating closely with physicians, nurses, case managers and social workers, therapists, and other specialties. Most recently Allison has provided speech therapy in home health, early intervention, and school-based teletherapy. The Lord God Almighty has equipped me with the administrative and advanced therapy experience to provide you with the highest level of service delivery in the area of speech-language pathology.
As a team focused on providing the very best Speech Pathologist Cape Girardeau Missouri has to offer, I am 100% focused on helping you or your family members to learn how to overcome any speech therapy related issues such as difficulty with swallowing, dysphagia, voice disturbances or dysphonia, difficulties with cognition, word finding, thought organization, executive function, reduced speech intelligibility or dysarthria, speech sound production and phonological processes, language skills and/or stuttering which may affect your child’s social situations and academic success, and language based literacy challenges or an adult’s ability to successfully complete activities of daily living.
Speech therapy’s scope of practice is vast and covers more than most people realize. Contact a licensed Speech Pathologist at Speech Language Pathology of Missouri LLC for a free consultation to learn more about if and how we can help you.
Being a Speech Pathologist Cape Girardeau Missouri is such an honor and blessing for me. I fell in love with this profession in my early 20s as a speech-language pathologist’s scope of practice is extensive and ever evolving. This profession offers ways of meeting new people, getting to know their story, and sharing in their journey and growth. As mentioned,the scope of practice of a speech-language pathologist is quite extensive. Most people might say, “I don’t need speech therapy; my speech is fine.” However, the scope of practice goes far beyond training and re-training speaking skills, although that is a significant area that speech-language pathology addresses.
The American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA) outlines a speech-language pathologist’s scope of practice thoroughly. Some speech-language pathologists may have different niches or specialities within the scopes of practice, even though a speech-language pathologist is qualified to treat within the entire scope of practice. If you would like to research more about a speech-language pathologist’s scope of practice, you may reference the ASHA website at asha.org.
Speech-language pathologists can address deficits in articulation, fluency, voice, receptive language, expressive language, hearing, swallowing, cognitive aspects, and social communication. You may wonder what each of these services might include.
First of all, a Speech Pathologist Cape Girardeau Missouri evaluates and treats articulation, which is the way that people say and shape their speech sounds for overall speech production and communication.
Fluency refers to the smoothness of your speech and conversational skills or the ability to speak easily. If you have difficulty in this area, your speech might present as stuttering or cluttering. Difficulties with fluency or stuttering may include sound, phrase, and/or sentence repetition, sound prolongations, noticeable blocks during speech productions, use of interjections, such as “uh” and “um”, and physical behaviors such as facial grimacing, facial groping, lip tremors, and eye blinking to name a few. People who stutter may purposefully avoid certain words to prevent a stuttering event. There is also an emotional component to stuttering, including embarrassment, frustration, and anxiety with speaking situations. Symptoms can vary based on the situation and environment in which a person who stutters might be speaking. Cluttering symptoms include rapid speech and irregular patterns of pausing during speech productions. I’m convinced that a Speech Pathologist Cape Girardeau Missouri would be beneficial to reduce signs and symptoms with dysfluencies.
Voice disturbances affect the quality of your voice. Voice disorders can affect any age between a young child to the elderly. To address voice disturbances a Speech Pathologist Cape Girardeau Missouri evaluates and treats a potential deficit by assessing a person’s voice for age appropriateness, volume or audibility and the pleasant sound and quality of your voice. A voice disturbance may be caused by a physiological problem, such as an illness impacting voice quality, or it may be a functional problem, based on a person’s behaviors and vocal abuse. Voice disturbances may trace back to etiologies such as a chronic cough, abnormal respiratory performance or airway protection, and tracheostomy status to name a few. A Speech Pathologist Cape Girardeau Missouri addresses both physiological and functionally-based voice disorders.
Your receptive language skills highlight one’s ability to comprehend language from both written and spoken communication. Expressive language skills includes how a person communicates their ideas functionally, either with written or verbal presentations for your professional and activities of daily living.
A Speech Pathologist Cape Girardeau Missouri addresses hearing through hearing loss prevention, education, and auditory rehabilitation in conjunction with an audiologist. A speech pathologist might also work in collaboration with an otolaryngologist to address your needs. A Speech Pathologist can assist with communication success, choose appropriate communication strategies, evaluate and establish the needs for alternative communication techniques and devices.
Swallowing addresses deficits within pre-oral, oral phase, oral-pharyngeal and upper esophageal phases of swallowing so that one may swallow safely to reduce the risk of aspiration pneumonia, airway blockages, and preserving overall dignity when eating. The swallowing mechanism and its movement is a complex process involving multiple muscles, pressure generation and bolus propulsion. Difficulties with swallowing, often referred to by professionals as dysphagia, can leave you with feelings of embarrassment at the dinner table, cause you to cough, clear your throat, cause you to choke, or have foods or liquids fall from your mouth. Dysphagia can also impact your overall oral intake. If you have difficulty with your swallowing, a Speech Pathologist Cape Girardeau Missouri will evaluate your swallow and provide you with exercises and/or strategies to improve your swallowing safety to reduce or eliminate your symptoms to increase efficiency of oral intake.
Cognition is an ever-growing area as Speech Pathologist addresses memory deficits, sequencing steps for completion of activities of daily living and everyday tasks, executive function skills for daily routines, planning, organizing, initiation tasks with and without distraction, task completion with divided attention, and utilizing cognitive flexibility.
Social communication is assessed and treated by a Speech Pathologist as one may have difficulties with understanding the use of social norms in a social environment, which impacts appropriate language use and communication in social situations. These areas may include nonverbal language, such as body language and eye movements to communicate without words, or understanding how to read someone’s emotions through body language, gestures, and figurative language or sarcasm.
Deficits in one or more than one of these areas may appear in varying degrees and disorders. That is why it is so important that you call or contact Speech Language Pathology of Missouri LLC to receive a free consultation and speak with a qualified Speech Pathologist Cape Girardeau Missouri. We will provide you with a 10-15 minute consultation to determine if and how you could benefit from services. Wouldn’t it be nice to know if you need a Speech Pathologist before you spend your time and efforts? Speech Language Pathology of Missouri LLC provides habilitation for children who may be late to develop speech and language development or possibly due to specific language impairments, deficits with language-based literacy or autism spectrum disorders. Some other etiologies may include but are not limited to birth deficits, low birth weight, and prematurity.
This Speech Pathologist Cape Girardeau Missouri also evaluates and provides rehabilitation to varying disorders, including those who have experienced strokes, head injuries, Parkinson’s disease, cognitive disorders, stuttering and cluttering, dementia and functional maintenance programs for those who have Alzheimer’s disease, and other disorders and diseases among others.