• Providers and Locations
• Audiology
• Cranial Base Surgery
• Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
• General Otolaryngology
• Head and Neck Cancer Surgery
• Nasal/Sinus Conditions, Surgery and Rhinology
• Otology/Neurotology
• Smell and Taste Disorders
• Speech-Language Pathology
• Transoral Robotic Surgery
• Voice, Speech and Swallowing Disorders

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The Speech-Language Pathology Division provides comprehensive evaluation and treatment for deficits related to speech, language, cognitive, voice and swallowing disorders (dysphagia). Difficulties in swallowing and/or communication often occur with surgeries of the head and neck, cerebral vascular accidents (stroke), brain tumors, head injuries and neuromuscular diseases.

Services offered include the following:

• dysphagia clinical evaluation
• videofluoroscopic study (with the radiologist)
• fiberoptic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing (with an attendant physician)
• videostroboscopic voice evaluation
• Kay Computer Speech Lab
• various appropriate treatment strategies

Many patients present with problems requiring close consultation between the speech-language pathologist and the referring physician, or multidisciplinary care involving other appropriate medical subspecialists. The University of Pennsylvania Health System is an environment in which the patient can be assured of close collaboration with appropriate medical specialists for those patients who require it. The services provided by the speech-language pathology division are designed to help patients develop effective communication abilities and restore safe eating and drinking function.

 

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