It is run in two forms:

• On inpatient wards - consular specialised speech therapy care provided daily in the morning, mainly in neurology, but also in geriatric, rehabilitation, internal medicine, traumatology, infectious diseases department. etc.
• On an outpatient basis - according to appointments and office hours of ambulance No. 1 and No. 2.

What care we provide

• We provide comprehensive care for pediatric and adult patients with speech communication and swallowing disorders.
• We provide expert diagnostics and long-term systematic therapy.
• We work closely with medical and non-medical health professionals.
• Outpatient intervention is initiated at the request of a general practitioner or specialist.
• Our speech therapy is covered by health insurance.
• In cooperation with the ENT department, we participate in the operation of a specialized outpatient clinic for swallowing disorders and the implementation of the FEES examination method in indicated patients.

The most common speech therapy diagnoses in adult patients include:

• Aphasia - impairment of the individual language abilities.
• Dysarthria - disorder of the speech execution.
• Dysphagia - swallowing disorder.
• Cognitive-communication disorder - cognitive impairment predominates, but at the same time speech communication impairment is present.
• Dyslalia - articulation disorder.
• Stammering

The most common speech therapy diagnoses in paediatric patients include:

• Delayed speech development
• Persistent difficulties due to a neurodevelopmental disorder - developmental dysphasia, specific learning disabilities, ADHD and ADD syndromes, autism spectrum disorders.
• Dyslalia - developmental and persistent disorders of articulation and phonological discrimination of vowels.
• Stammering, stuttering - speech fluency disorders.
• Disruption of speech development based on another predominant disability - mental retardation.
• Mutism - psychogenic speech and communication disorder.
• Speech sound distortion in children with a cleft lip defects.

When to see a clinical speech therapist?

• At any time if you are unsure whether your child's speech development is progressing correctly - regardless of the child's age.
• Early diagnosis and initiation of speech therapy intervention is crucial.
• On the recommendation of a general practitioner or specialist physician, initiate or continue speech therapy in an adult patient, especially after stroke, head and neck trauma and surgery, cancer and neurodegenerative diseases, or persistent dyslalia and stammering.

Clinical speech therapist:	Mgr. Tereza Závodská
Phone	+420 567 157 179
E-mail	zavodskat@nemji.cz
Office hours	MO - SU: 7:00 - 12:00 (beds) 13:00 - 15:30 (speech therapy clinic)
Where to find us	Block E, 5th floor