Speech therapy services
- Service
- 14 municipalities
- Public service
The goal of speech therapy is to improve the client’s functional and communication skills in everyday life. Speech therapy is carried out in collaboration with your family and your close surroundings.
The speech therapist assesses and treats difficulties with:
· speech
· language
· communication/interaction
· the voice
· reading and writing
· eating and swallowing
· oral motor skil ...
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A referral is always needed before visiting one of our speech therapists. Children can receive a referral via the child welfare clinic or school health service, while adults can be referred by a doctor.
Background information
Speech therapy is intended for children, young people and adults who have disorders related to producing and/or understanding speech, voice disorders or difficulties with swallowing. Speech therapy is a form of medical rehabilitation that includes examinations. The purpose of the therapy is to help the patient communicate and manage independently and without difficulties in their everyday life. Periods of speech therapy are provided as individual and/or group therapy.
The patient may be instructed in the use of assistive devices, including speech-generating devices, as part of the therapy. Children and young people are usually referred to speech therapy by the child welfare clinic or school health care services, whereas adults may be referred to the therapy by a doctor or a nurse.