Speech and Language Therapy Patient Views

Hi! I just finished a speech therapy course, and I believe it has helped! Now, I try to sing out loud whenever I’m alone, like in the car or shower. In fact, I’m even having an easier time swallowing my pills. I guess it’s just another muscle that needs to be exercised!

I have been taking speech therapy thru the Mpls VA for a year now via video link once/week and will continue with it because it has helped me.

I was going to mention swallowing and speech, my friend … but I started speech therapy a couple of weeks ago, and I’m optimistic that will help on both fronts. I don’t have slurring — but I do get hoarse and have soft speech. Are you able to go to speech therapy or is that too far to travel for you?

Those are very good points and are well worth keeping in mind. The results confirmed my worst suspicions that my cognitive changes were significant so it was easy to latch on to this one assessment.

I start 12 weeks of sessions with my speech therapist next week so hopefully that will be a chance to learn skills and approaches to deal with all of this.

Helped me. Similar to a friend's mother. You must be disciplined and work with a speech therapist.

It 100% helped my mother! You might not be able to see any improvement (neither did my mother), but it was a godsend to those of us who care for her. We could definitely see major improvement.

You have to do the homework EVERY DAY. I forced my mother! She can’t tell a difference even now, and thinks it’s silly to continue speech therapy, but omg, it’s so much better! We stayed with the same therapist who did SPEAK OUT, and she also had my mother do “tongue-o-meter” exercises. Those have helped her swallowing function improve so much.

I developed a stutter and my speech is not very good either I have to go to a speech therapist to see if they can help me.

Therapy provided by speech therapist

I have been to speech therapy Before And I’m supposed to go again. Looking for one that maybe will be able to help me.

My father’s speech has gotten slower and more strained. He still does a beautiful job of communicating when he wants to, but I worry that he doesn’t always participate in conversations because it’s getting harder for him to talk. He hasn’t tried speech therapy, and I’m not sure how to convince him to try. Have you explored speech therapy? If so, have you seen positive results?