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Adult Speech Therapy Singapore

Consulting a Speech Therapist

Swallowing

Dysphagia (i.e., difficulty swallowing) affects a person’s quality life and can be distressing for both patients and their loved ones. For patients with dysphagia, food or fluids might enter the lungs, which can cause a lung infection. Patients with swallowing difficulty might also be at risk of malnutrition and dehydration.

Expected Clients: Those with neurological diseases (e.g., Parkinson’s, dementia, and stroke) and head and neck cancers

Usual Referral Source: ENTs, Neurologists, Respiratory Doctors

Service Delivery: Clinic sessions, nursing homes (if unable to go to site, may consider developing an SOP for tele-screening), teletherapy (for rehab cases), home therapy

Initial Session Length: 45 minutes

Review Session Length: 30 minutes to 45 minutes

Types of Intervention:

  • Swallow rehabilitation
  • Modifying food textures and fluid consistencies
  • Postural adjustments while eating/drinking
  • Safe feeding techniques
  • Caregiver training

Cost: Similar price to pediatric speech therapy service

Stuttering

Those who stutter may continuously repeat sounds or words, stretch a sound out for a long time or have a hard time getting a word out.

Usual Referral Source: Walk-ins

Service Delivery: In clinic or teletherapy

Initial Session Length: Assessment (1hr)

Review Session Length: Intervention (45 mins to 1 hr)

Cost: Similar price to pediatric speech therapy service

Speech

A speech disorder is a motor disorder where a person may not sound clear, may be slurred or may have difficulties producing speech sounds accurately.

Expected Clients: Those with neurological diseases (e.g., Parkinson’s, stroke, brain injury) and head and neck cancers (e.g., tongue cancer)

Usual Referral Source: ENTs, Neurologists

Service Delivery: In clinic, home therapy or teletherapy (preferred for Parkinson’s patients where therapy involves loud speech which is an aerosol generating procedure)

Session length (both assessment and reviews) : 45 minutes to 1 hour

What is done in session?

  • Speech tasks and jaw/lip/tongue exercises
  • Compensatory strategies to improve patients’ ability to express themselves
  • Caregiver training to teach communication strategies

Cost: Similar price to pediatric speech therapy service

Language and Cognitive - Communication

Communication

Difficulty understanding others, reading, expressing themselves appropriately, finding the words for speech or writing.

Expected Clients: Those with neurological diseases (e.g., Parkinson’s, stroke, brain injury) or brain injury

Usual Referral Source: Neurologists

Service Delivery: In clinic, home therapy or teletherapy

Session length (both assessment and reviews): 1 hour (at times, the session may be broken into shorter blocks if the client has attention issues)

What is done in session?

  • Communication tasks to improve specific skills based on goals set by client
  • Compensatory strategies to improve patients’ ability to understand others or express themselve
  • Caregiver training to teach communication strategies

Cost: Similar price to pediatric speech therapy service

Speech Therapy Fees for Adults

60 - mins
Therapy Session
(A la carte)
from
$190
/ session*
60 - mins
10 Therapy Sessions (Package)
from
$171
/ session*

*Disclaimer - All prices are associated with weekday centre based therapy. Additional cost for Saturday sessions. For home based therapy, additional transport charges will apply. Pricing may change depending on the seniority of the therapist.  


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Other Services

Counselling

Psychological Assessment

Occupational Therapy

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Physiotherapy

Educational Services

DIRFloortime®

Social Skills Training

Applied Behaviour Analysis

Early Intervention Program

Dynamics International School

Wellness Centre