Speech-Language Therapy
Speech-Language Therapy at East Tennessee Children's Hospital
Our pediatric Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) help patients birth to 21 years old improve speech, communication, swallowing and feeding. We create a customized care plan for each patient and work closely with parents and caregivers to support throughout their lives.
Our Purpose
Speech-Language Pathologists treat children with a variety of diagnosis and communication difficulties, including:
- Developmental delay
- Traumatic brain injury
- Autism spectrum disorder
- Sensory processing disorder
- Oral aversion
- Feeding difficulties
- Neonatal abstinence syndrome
- Down syndrome
We help children and adolescents with speech production, fluency, language, cognition, voice, resonance, hearing, and swallowing/feeding difficulties. Our goal is to optimize communication and feeding skills to improve your child's quality of life.
Customized Care Where You Are
We deliver high-quality care directly to our patients. In addition to our four convenient outpatient locations (Barry, link to locations page), we partner with Emerald Academy to provide speech and language services to children in grades Kindergarten through 8th grade.
Located at East Tennessee Children’s Hospital in downtown Knoxville, our Clinch Rehabilitation Center team is an integral part of our multidisciplinary feeding clinic, Motivating Mealtimes.
We also have Speech-Language Pathologists that care for children at East Tennessee Children’s Hospital in the NICU, PICU, and in clinics such as Oncology clinic, Grow with Me Clinic, Developmental Follow up Clinic, and Cleft and Craniofacial clinic.
These therapists work closely with nurses, physicians, physical and occupational therapists to support our patient’s needs and get them ready for discharge and/or outpatient services.
