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Cathy Smart, MS, CCC-SLP

Speech-Language Pathologist

Gender: Female
Experience: 15 years

About Cathy Smart, MS, CCC-SLP

Cathy Smart, MS, CCC-SLP is a speech-language pathologist. Mrs. Cathy Smart has 15 years of experience in speech-language pathology.

Education

Cathy Smart, MS, CCC-SLP earned degrees of a Master of Science and Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology.

Licenses

Cathy Smart, MS, CCC-SLP has been registered with the National Provider Identifier database since August 05, 2008, and her NPI number is 1003072455.

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To schedule an appointment with Mrs. Cathy Smart, please call (479) 965-4190.

Speech-Language Pathologist

Mrs. Cathy Smart is a Speech-Language Pathologist in Charleston, AR with special training and skill in preventing, assessing, diagnosing, and treating speech, language, cognitive communication, and swallowing disorders arising from illness, injury, deficiency, or congenital birth defect. As a Speech-Language Pathologist, Cathy Smart, MS, CCC-SLP performs testing, evaluation, and treatment of disorders relating to how patients form words, communicate, and process the speech of others. Speech-Language Pathology is a medical specialty that deals with disorders related to how patients form words, speak, and understand what others are saying to them. Significant diseases and conditions treated by Speech-Language Pathologists include speech disorders like stuttering and dysarthia, language disorders like articulation and phonological processing disorders, social communication disorders, cognitive-communication disorders, voice disorders, and swallowing disorders that may arise from conditions like stroke, dementia, brain injury, multiple sclerosis (MS), Parkinson's disease, autism, hearing loss, or congenital birth defects. Medical tests, procedures and therapies provided by Speech-Language Pathologists include speech and language assessment, hearing assessment, developing treatment plans based on assessment and test results, developing communications strategies for patients and caregivers, working with patients to achieve communication goals, and providing patient and parent education.

The speech-language pathologist is the professional who engages in clinical services, prevention, advocacy, education, administration, and research in the areas of communication and swallowing across the life span from infancy through geriatrics. Speech-language pathologists address typical and atypical impairments and disorders related to communication and swallowing in the areas of speech sound production, resonance, voice, fluency, language (comprehension and expression), cognition, and feeding and swallowing.

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