What are some of the speech and language difficulties after brain injury?
Your speech and language therapist will provide a comprehensive assessment of your speech and language skills and needs following a brain injury. They may undertake a formal assessment with standardised measures or informal assessments such as observations, it is likely that they will use both approaches to gain a fuller understanding of how the brain injury has impacted on your communication. Some of the speech and language difficulties include:
Our Specialist Speech Therapy practice provides speech and language therapy to people following a brain injury. To discuss your precise needs or to arrange an assessment appointment, contact us today.
- understanding what others are saying
- word finding
- sequencing and organising language
- humour, inference and sarcasm
- dysarthria (slurred speech)
- dyspraxia
- using language which is appropriate to the context e.g speaking to your solicitor as opposed to your friends in the pub
- reading
- writing
- dysphagia (swallowing difficulties)
- cognitive-communication problems
Our Specialist Speech Therapy practice provides speech and language therapy to people following a brain injury. To discuss your precise needs or to arrange an assessment appointment, contact us today.