Sub Acute Inpatient Rehab

Speech Therapy

The Pediatric ReHabilitation Department of Exeter Hospital is committed to offering the highest quality care to children and families in the community. Our goal is to provide excellent patient care experiences by engaging families in the treatment process and responding to specific needs and preferences. Our team consists of occupational therapists, physical therapists, and speech-language pathologists.

The role of pediatric speech therapy is to help children achieve functional communication skills to meet their social, academic and personal needs. Speech Therapists work with children to improve articulation, language, social communication, oral motor skills and feeding and swallowing.

Our pediatric speech therapists support children in the development of skills needed to be a successful student, sibling, son or daughter, friend, and community member. We collaborate with children, their families, medical providers, educators, and other therapy disciplines to provide the best, most current therapy, and to help children develop into happy, healthy, independent adults.

Our speech therapists provide evaluation & treatment in the following areas:

Articulation
Oral motor skills
Social/pragmatic skills
Feeding and swallowing
Receptive and expressive language
Language processing
Home program development
Written Language

Specialty Services Include –

Feeding evaluation/treatment
PECS - Picture Exchange Communication System
Hearing Aid Program - loaner hearing aid program and financial assistance to qualifying families for purchase of devices
Hearing Screening Program - free community service to children ages 3-6 in private preschool/kindergarten settings

Helpful Link:

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

Meet our Speech Therapists