Speech Pathology and Rehabilitation
Restoring communication and swallowing after an injury or illness
Our team has experience providing speech pathology rehabilitation following stroke, traumatic brain injury, surgery, and cancer. We also offer rehab services to maximise communication or swallowing skills for those with degenerative conditions such as Parkinson’s disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Huntington’s disease, and dementia. We offer rehab to adults and adolescents (>13 years).
Rehabilitation needs a team approach. We will work with you, your family, and other health professionals, to help you to achieve your goals.
We can provide:
- swallowing assessment at your home
- swallowing rehabilitation, including direct therapy, feeding equipment, positioning, education, and texture modification
- communication assessment at home, work, or in the community
- communication rehabilitation, that is individualised to achieve your goals
- communication partner training
- contribution to team meetings
- reports to other health professionals
Articles about rehabilitation
News and advice relating to speech pathology rehabilitation
Communication accessibility is communication for all
In Speech Pathology Week 2018, we call for greater action towards national communication accessibility. This is the message we send with this year’s theme: Communication Access Is Communication [...]
Why talking together is better! Here’s the evidence for group therapy for adults
We are big fans of group therapy for adults at Wollongong Speech Pathology. There is good evidence that talking together with peers leads to good communication outcomes. And [...]
Lung Disease and speech pathology: what can we do to protect your voice?
How can speech pathology help a person with lung disease? Do you have lung disease? Perhaps you hadn’t thought much about speech pathology until one day your doctor [...]