The Hearing and Speech Clinic at Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics has oversight of the Speech Program. The program provides evaluations, consultations, parent counseling and therapies for children with communication or feeding/swallowing disorders.

A care plan is created based on the evaluation. Parents are asked to observe therapy sessions to learn how to help their children practice at home.

About the Program

• What is a speech-language pathologist?
• Speech Evaluations
• Speech Therapy
• Meet the Speech-Language Pathology Staff

Commonly Treated Conditions

• Academic language disorders
• Apraxia of speech
• Autism spectrum disorders (ASD)
• Cognitive disorders
• Developmental delay
• Down Syndrome
• Dyslexia
• Fluency disorders (stuttering)
• Hearing loss and deafness
• Language disorders (expressive, pragmatic, receptive)
• Orofacial myofunctional disorders
• Pediatric head trauma or neurological injuries
• Resonance and those associated with cleft palate or velopharyngeal dysfunction
• Swallowing
• Voice disorders