Speech-Language Pathology (SLP)
Professionals who help to assess and treat swallowing and feeding disorders, language and speech disorders, social communication disorders, voice disorders, hearing loss, and cognitive-communication disorders.
Office Hours: Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Address: 1311 North Mildred Road, Cortez, CO 81321
Phone: 970-564-2460 Fax: 970-564-2468
Speech-Language Pathology for Adults
Cognition: attention, memory, sequencing/planning, comprehension, processing speed, reading, writing.
Aphasia: difficulty understanding spoken words or sharing thoughts, ideas, and feelings, reading comprehension, and written expression.
Dysarthria: slurred or mumbled speech, talking too fast or slow, uncoordinated oral movements, hyponasal or hypernasal voice, weak tongue/jaw/lips/cheeks/soft palate, facial weakness.
Hearing: auditory training for better attention to speech or environmental sounds.
Voice: loss of voice, sore throat with talking, habitual throat clear/cough, too quiet of a voice, too loud of a voice, voice too low/high for gender, hyponasal or hypernasal voice.
Swallowing/Feeding: feeling that food/liquid/pills are stuck in the throat, coughing/choking when swallowing, throat clearing after swallowing, coughing 20-30 minutes after eating, aspiration with swallowing, hypersensitive/hyposensitive gag reflex.
Diagnoses seen by a Speech-Language Pathologist:
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
- Aspiration of Food/Liquid/Pills
- Bell’s Palsy
- Brain Tumors or Traumatic Brain Injury
- Cerebral Palsy
- Dementia
- Dysphagia
- Hearing Loss
- Laryngeal Cancer
- Voice Transition
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Muscular Dystrophy
- Myasthenia Gravis
- Nerve Disorders or Damage
- Oral Cancer
- Parkinson’s Disease
- Radiation for Neck or Mouth
- Spasmodic Dysphonia
- Spinal Cord Injury
- Stroke
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Vocal Fold Paralysis/Vocal Tremor/Vocal Dysfunction