Inpatient Services

The Speech-Language Pathology Department at Arkansas Children’s provides comprehensive assessment and management in the areas of feeding/swallowing, oral-motor function, and speech-language-cognition. 

Services are provided to all units of the hospital including:

• General medical floors
• Intensive care units
  • Burn Unit
  • Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit
  • Imtermediate Care Unit
  • Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
  • Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
• Progressive Rehabilitation Unit

A physician order is required for a patient to receive inpatient Speech-Language Pathology services. 

Services provided include evaluation and management in the following areas:

• Developmental care in the NICU
• Cognitive-linguistic evaluations
• Feeding/Swallowing evaluations– including both clinical bedside swallowing evaluations and videofluoroscopic swallow studies
• Passy Muir
• Comprehensive speech-language evaluations