Support / Professional Services
Speech-Language Pathology
Speech-language pathology provides assessment, management, education, counselling and assistance with discharge planning for patients with swallowing, speech, language, cognitive communication and voice disorders.
Our Mission
1. To provide excellence and leadership in the treatment of swallowing, voice, and cognitive-communication disorders, in collaboration with other health disciplines.
2. To be the teaching institution of choice for students of speech-language pathology.
3. To use leading-edge technology and current best practices in the field of speech-language pathology.
Clinical Service
Our staff of seven speech-language pathologists provides services to all programs of the Hospital and to two outpatient clinics: swallowing and voice. The voice clinic operates five days a week. Voice therapy is not covered by the Ontario Healh Insurance Plan (OHIP) and there is a fee associated with these services. The outpatient swallowing clinic operates one day a week and provides swallow studies to patients within our catchment area. As part of the Regional Stroke Center in Southeast Toronto, we provide dedicated service to the inpatient stroke team.
Education and Research
The speech-language pathology service is fully affiliated with the graduate program in speech-language pathology at the University of Toronto. Each year, four or five student placements are provided to this program, along with specialized lectures in traumatic brain injury and voice to speech-language pathology graduate students at the university. Fifty percent of our clinicians have academic faculty appointments at the University of Toronto.
Quality improvement research is conducted on tracheostomy care and management in collaboration with the tracheostomy care team. Clinical research is also actively conducted with the ear, nose and throat service in the voice clinic. We are committed to ongoing continuing education, including monthly reviews of current research, student presentations and case reviews.
Contact Us
8 Cardinal Carter, room 8-167
St. Michael's Hospital
30 Bond Street
Toronto, Ontario
M5B 1W8, Canada
Phone: 416-864-6060 Ext. 2904
Fax: 416-864-5272
E-mail: jwu@smh.ca
