Central Baptist's speech-language pathology department provides services to children and adults on an inpatient or outpatient basis.

Understanding Speech-Language Pathology

Speech-language pathologists work with people who have communication or swallowing disorders. Speech and language disorders limit a person's ability to communicate with others.

A speech-language pathologist is a specialist in communication and swallowing disorders. All speech-language pathologists at Central Baptist Hospital have a master's degree, a state license and a Certificate of Clinical Competence awarded by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

Services Provided

At Central Baptist Hospital, our speech-language pathologists evaluate and treat speech, language, cognitive, oral motor and swallowing deficits in children and adults.  Persons who can benefit from speech-language services include:

• Infants and children with feeding and swallowing problems;
• Adults with neurological diagnoses such as stroke, traumatic brain injury, Parkinson’s disease or ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease);
• Adults with cognitive or swallowing deficits;
• Laryngectomy patients who have lost their voice boxes to cancer and want to learn how to talk again;
• Children and adults with vocal cord problems, such as injury, polyps, nodules, paralysis or hoarseness, who would benefit from voice therapy;
• Children and adults with a breathing problem called Vocal Cord Dysfunction (VCD).

To schedule an appointment for outpatient speech therapy, call central scheduling at 859-260-6547.

Home Health

Central Baptist Hospital Home Care provides speech therapy to homebound patients in an 11-county area in central Kentucky. For more information on receiving speech-language pathology services at home, please call (859) 260-6569 or toll free 1-800-489-3002.

For More Information

To schedule an appointment for outpatient speech therapy, call (859) 260-6129.