Helping You to Find Your Voice
The ability to communicate and swallow is an essential part of your daily life. If you or a loved one has an illness, injury, or other disorder that has affected communication, cognition or swallowing abilities, a speech-language therapist can help.
At St. Joseph’s Health, two specialized teams comprise the Speech-Language Pathology Department — the Speech-Language and Cognition Therapy team and the Swallowing team. By having team members with specialized expertise, we are able to provide comprehensive treatment options to patients while ensuring that they are at the highest quality.
Speech-Language and Cognition Therapy
St. Joseph’s Health Speech-Language and Cognition Therapy offers a variety of diagnostic and treatment services for inpatient and outpatients of all ages who have speech, language, cognitive and voice conditions. Clinicians work closely with each patient, family and the health care team to create an individualized treatment plan to meet each patient’s goals.
Our speech-language pathologists hold master’s degrees, New Jersey licenses, and Certificates of Clinical Competence from The American Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists.
Areas of expertise:
- Aphasia (loss of language skills)
- Articulation disorders
- Autism spectrum disorder
- Cognitive impairment, dementia and memory loss
- Delayed speech and language development
- Dysarthria and apraxia
- Fluency (stuttering) disorders
- Treatment of Parkinson’s disease
- Voice disorders
Swallowing Therapy
The St. Joseph’s Health Swallowing Team offers a variety of diagnostic and treatment services to inpatient and outpatient adults. The clinicians on this specialty team strive to achieve patient goals through the use of individualized treatment plans that include on-sight completion of modified barium swallow and flexible endoscopic evaluation of swallowing studies.
Our team members hold master’s degrees, New Jersey licenses and Certificates of Clinical Competence from The American Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists.
Areas of expertise:
- Expiratory Muscle Strength Training (EMST)
- Flexible endoscopic evaluation of swallowing
- Management of dysphagia in progressive disorders (PD, MS, Dementia, Huntington’s)
- Manual therapy
- Modified barium swallow studies
- Post-stroke dysphagia rehabilitation
- Prophylactic head & neck cancer treatment
- Radiation fibrosis syndrome/radiation-induced dysphagia
- Supragastric belching management
Locations
St. Joseph’s University Medical Center
703 Main Street
Paterson, NJ 07503
973-754-2960
(Swallowing Services)
St. Joseph’s Health Rehabilitation Services
11 Getty Avenue
Paterson, NJ 07503
973-754-2960
St. Joseph’s Health Rehabilitation Services
225 Minnisink Road
Totowa, NJ 07512
862-657-3130
St. Joseph’s Wayne Medical Center
224 Hamburg Turnpike
Wayne, NJ 07470
973-956-3327
(Swallowing Services)
St. Joseph’s Health Rehabilitation Services
234 Hamburg Turnpike
Wayne, NJ 07470
973-956-3360
