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Adult speech therapy assesses and treats acquired disorders of speech, language, voice, cognitive communication, and swallowing in adults aged 18 and over. A DHA-licensed speech-language pathologist delivers it.
Five domains sit within the service. Speech production governs sound clarity. Language governs word retrieval and comprehension. Voice governs pitch and loudness. Cognitive communication links attention and memory to conversation. Swallowing governs whether food passes safely into the esophagus rather than the airway.
Assessment comes first. The pathologist takes a case history, examines oral-motor function and samples natural communication. Those findings produce a diagnosis, a severity rating and a written plan with measurable goals.
Therapy then targets each patient’s needed function. A stroke survivor regaining conversation and a Parkinson’s patient restoring vocal loudness follow different protocols. Call Doctor Now matches the program to the diagnosis.
Adult therapy restores function lost to illness or injury, making it rehabilitative rather than developmental.
Dysarthria results from weak or poorly coordinated speech muscles, producing slurred, quiet speech. Apraxia of speech disrupts motor planning while muscle strength stays intact. Stroke, Parkinson's disease, and traumatic brain injury cause most adult cases.
Aphasia impairs word finding, grammar, and comprehension and usually follows a left-hemisphere stroke. It often extends to reading and writing. Cognitive-communication disorder breaks conversation through failing attention and memory after brain injury.
Voice disorders alter pitch, loudness, and endurance, presenting as hoarseness or vocal fatigue. Teachers, lawyers, and call-center staff carry elevated occupational risk. Hoarseness beyond three weeks requires an ENT examination before voice therapy begins.
Stroke causes aphasia, dysarthria, apraxia, and dysphagia, often together. Parkinson's disease produces hypokinetic dysarthria with reduced vocal loudness. Multiple sclerosis produces ataxic dysarthria. Dementia affects comprehension rather than speech production, shifting therapy toward partner training.
Dysphagia impairs safe movement of food and fluid into the oesophagus. Coughing at meals, a wet voice after swallowing and weight loss are warning signs, and untreated dysphagia risks aspiration pneumonia.
Assessment establishes the diagnosis before therapy begins. The pathologist takes a case history, examines oral-motor function, and samples conversation in the home. Standardized measures set a baseline for scoring progress. You receive a written report stating diagnosis, severity, goals, and session frequency.
Stroke produces several deficits at once, and therapy addresses each. Aphasia therapy rebuilds word retrieval and sentence construction. Dysarthria therapy trains breath support, rate control and loudness. Apraxia therapy drills articulatory sequencing. Treatment runs in blocks reviewed at the end of each, and gains remain achievable in chronic stages.
Voice therapy retrains vocal function behaviorally through resonant voice exercises, straw phonation, and vocal hygiene changes to hydration, load, and rest. Professional voice users rebuild occupational endurance. ENT examination precedes therapy where hoarseness has persisted.
This therapy targets the thinking processes carrying conversation: sustained attention, recall, topic maintenance, and everyday reasoning. Memory books and structured routines support carryover between sessions. Traumatic brain injury, right-hemisphere stroke, and dementia are the usual causes.
Swallowing therapy reduces aspiration risk and restores safer oral intake. Home evaluation identifies triggers. Treatment covers postural strategies, strengthening manoeuvres, modified intake, and carer training for mealtimes. Call Doctor Now to arrange hospital referral for videofluoroscopy or FEES where indicated.
The speech-language pathologist takes a case history, examines oral-motor function, and samples conversation at home. You receive a written report stating diagnosis, severity, goals and frequency.
Sessions work with targeted techniques, then apply them to real conversation. Aphasia work rebuilds word retrieval. Dysarthria work trains breath support and loudness. Swallowing work covers postural strategies and carer training. Daily home practice drives most of the gain.
The pathologist re-scores baseline measures every session against the original goals. Results decide whether therapy continues, goals change, or you move to maintenance.
Call Doctor Now Home Health Care Center, which holds a Dubai Health Authority facility license, listed on the DHA Sheryan medical directory. Every clinician holds an individual DHA professional license you can verify by name before the first visit. Medical oversight sits with Dr Muhammad Jan, medical director and registered general practitioner.
Therapy begins only after assessment establishes diagnosis and severity. Goals are written before the first session and re-scored at review. You are told when therapy should stop, not only when it should continue.
Videofluoroscopy and FEES cannot be performed at home, and persistent hoarseness needs ENT examination before voice therapy. Where a case needs a setting we cannot provide, we say so and coordinate the referral.
Visits cover Downtown, Business Bay, DIFC, Dubai Marina, JLT, Palm Jumeirah, Umm Suqeim, Al Barsha, Mirdif, Deira, and Bur Dubai. Home delivery removes the travel burden that stops post-stroke and reduced-mobility patients attending clinics. The fee is confirmed in AED before scheduling.
Call Doctor Now also delivers physiotherapy, home nursing, and elderly care, so stroke recovery, mobility, and swallowing management stay under one clinical team.
