Rice Rehabilitation Center
Services and Treatment Programs

Adaptive Equipment Assessment
Balance Training
Biofeedback
Cerebrovascular Accident (CVA)
Cognitive Assessment
Craniosacral Therapy
Daily Living Skills
Driving Evaluation
Ergonomic Training & Consultation
Falls Prevention Assessment Clinic
Fluidotherapy
Hand Therapy
Headaches and TMJ
Home Assessment
IMPACT Concussion Testing
Industrial Rehab
Interactive Metronome Program
Job Placement Assessment
Low Vision Therapy
Lymphedema Therapy
Myofascial Release
Multiple Sclerosis Assessment Clinic
Parkinson's Assessment Clinic
Pediatric Therapy
Pool Therapy
Positional Release
Pressure Mapping System
Sensory Integration Therapy
Soft Tissue Technique
Splinting
Strain Counter Strain
Strategic Orthopedics
Therapeutic Listening Program
Total Joint Rehab Class
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Urinary Incontinence Therapy
Vestibular Rehab / Balance
Video Fluoroscopy
Wheelchair Assessment
Whole Body Assessment
Work Conditioning
Work Site Analysis
Wound Therapy

What is Speech Therapy?

Speech Therapy is part of a treatment plan for many illnesses and is used to manage conditions where speech, language, eating or swallowing is affected. Speech therapists evaluate and treat concerns that relate to your ability to use language and voice to communicate. They also conduct swallow evaluations to determine safety-appropriate food and liquid consistency for people with swallowing problems.

Who can benefit from Speech Therapy?

Speech therapists can help all ages, from children to older adults. They may focus on developmental, cognitive, physical, or psychological needs. You or a family member may benefit from speech therapy if there are challenges and concerns with communication and swallowing concerns, such as:

• aphasia
• dysphasia
• cognitive disorders
• swallowing difficulties
• developmental language delays
• speech sound difficulties
• voice issues
• stuttering
• pronounced foreign accent

Perhaps you've had a stroke, or been diagnosed with Parkinson's or another neurological disorder. Perhaps a child has developmental delays in communicating.

Speech therapists use computerized voice output, swallowing X-rays, communication therapies, and computer programs to help patients.

What causes communication problems?

The most common causes of communication problems in adults are related to:

• Stroke
• Brain tumors
• Parkinson's disease
• ALS
• Myasthenia Gravis
• Alzheimer's disease
• Head and neck cancer
• Stuttering
• Mental Retardation
• Traumatic Brain Injury
• Tracheostomy Placement
• Voice disorders including vocal nodules
• Dependence on a ventilator for breathing
• Other progressive neuromuscular diseases

What services are provided by speech therapists?

• Evaluation of communication and swallowing or feeding disorders.
• Treatment of communication and swallowing and/or feeding disorders.
• Counseling of patients and their caregivers/family on the nature of the disorder.
• Education of patients and their caregivers/family on how to maximize communicative success.
• Education of patients and caregivers/family on swallowing precautions and diet recommendations.

Meet the speech therapists
at Rice Rehab Center

For more information about services and treatment programs in Speech Therapy at Rice, please contact:

Rice Rehabilitation Center
311 SW 3rd St.
Willmar, MN 56201

Lynn Stier, Director
320.231.4175
lsti@rice.willmar.mn.us