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
