Speech Therapy

Speech language pathologists (SLPs) provide diagnostic evaluation and therapy services to children and adults who are patients at Castle Medical Center and to people in the Windward community who would like to receive these services through our outpatient clinic.

Some of the problems that require treatment include:

• Articulation disorders: Difficulty forming the sounds necessary to speak clearly
• Voice disorders: Difficulties with pitch, voice quality (such as hoarseness, nasality, and breathiness), or loudness of the voice
• Laryngectomy: Surgical removal of the vocal cords (voice box), requiring patients to learn how to speak again
• Tongue thrust: Speech or swallowing difficulties caused by dental abnormalities
• Stuttering: Interruptions in the flow or rhythm of speech
• Aphasia and dysarthria: Loss of speech or language abilities after neurological insults such as stroke, head injury, and brain tumors
• Cognitive and communication deficits: Difficulties with memory, attention, information processing, or thought organization as the result of stroke, head injury, or brain tumors
• Delayed language development in children
• Dysphagia: Swallowing problems due to brain damage, neuromuscular disease, head injury, or neck surgery.

Speech therapy is available at our Kailua outpatient clinic by appointment. We also provide treatment as ordered by your doctor at Castle Medical Center.

We are certified providers of LSVT (Lee Silverman Voice Treatment) for Parkinson’s disease, and of VitalStim electrical stimulation therapy for dysphagia (swallowing problems).

If you have any questions or wish to know more about speech therapy services offered at Castle Medical Center, please call us at (808) 263‑5303.