Speech and Swallow Therapy

Speech and Swallow Therapy will support you in getting those skills back, as they require thinking about the action while coordinating muscles of the face, mouth, tongue, and throat. Speech therapy can be focused on understanding words as well as on producing words that others can clearly understand, and usually involves longer practice and repetition. Swallowing problems are usually more of an unpleasant surprise, but can be life threatening, and therapie starts typically directly in the hospital, eventually by learning the "chin-tuck maneuver" : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4687995/