St. John's Children's Hospital Services Pediatric Rehabilitation Speech-Language Therapy
St. John's Children's Speech-Language Therapy

Pediatric Speech-Language Therapy

Dedicated Care for Speech & Swallowing Disorders

The HSHS St. John’s Children’s Hospital speech-language therapy team provides expert diagnosis and treatment of pediatric speech, language, feeding and swallowing disorders in both inpatient and outpatient settings.
 
Children who have speech, language or swallowing disorders can be referred to speech-language pathology for an evaluation to establish the presence, type, and severity of disorder, and to determine appropriate course of care.

To learn more, call 217-993-0200 or fax 217-757-6545.

Specialties

 
Our pediatric speech-language therapy specialties include:

  • Oral motor feeding issues associated with prematurity and other complex feeding disorders

  • Completion of swallow studies (VOSS) in conjunction with radiology to assess swallow function

  • Sensory feeding disorders evaluation and treatment using sequential oral sensory (SOS) approach 

  • Receptive and expressive language disorders and processing deficits

  • Treatment for vocal cord dysfunction

  • Oral and verbal apraxia, including use of PROMPT© and Kaufman approaches 

  • Assistive technology for communication

  • Use of multi-sensory approach for treatment of children