Home Health Care

Speech Therapy (ST) provides speech-language services to patients in their homes so they can see how they perform in their own living environment. This type of therapy is typically for patients who have difficulty with communication, swallowing, or cognitive functions due to illness, injury, aging, or developmental conditions.

The Speech Therapist creates treatment plans to address the unique needs of each patient, helping them improve their ability to speak, understand language, swallow food and liquids safely, and engage in everyday activities more effectively.

What Does an All Care Speech Therapist Do?

• Assessment and treatment of cognitive, language, communication, and swallowing disorders.
• Create care plans to address swallowing and communication problems.
• Educate patient and family/caregivers on oral motor and breathing exercises, and safe swallow strategies.
• Provide exercises to strengthen speech muscles and prevent deterioration.
• Strategies to strengthen memory, reasoning, planning, attention, organization, and problem-solving tasks.
• Recommend visual and auditory aids and other tools for patients with cognitive impairments.
• Diet planning, feeding and hydration techniques, and positioning changes to help with swallowing problems.
• Support language services such as writing, word-finding, reading, and comprehension.
• Suggest alternative ways of communicating (verbal and nonverbal), such as special devices, computer, tablet and smartphone.
• Communicate regularly with members of the patient’s care team, including nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists, doctors, and other health care professionals to ensure a coordinated approach to patient care.