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Catherine K. Lavigne, MS, CCC-SLP

Dental Hygienist

Gender: Female
Experience: 15 years

About Catherine K. Lavigne, MS, CCC-SLP

Catherine K. Lavigne, MS, CCC-SLP is a dental hygienist and speech-language pathologist. Ms. Catherine K. Lavigne has 15 years of experience in dental hygiene.

Education

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

Licenses

Catherine K. Lavigne, MS, CCC-SLP has been registered with the National Provider Identifier database since August 18, 2008, and her NPI number is 1295981637. Ms. Lavigne certified her NPI information on 08/08/2022.

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To schedule an appointment with Ms. Catherine K. Lavigne, please call (802) 524-7331.

Dental Hygienist

An individual who has completed an accredited dental hygiene education program, and an individual who has been licensed by a state board of dental examiners to provide preventive care services under the supervision of a dentist. Functions that may be legally delegated to the dental hygienist vary based on the needs of the dentist, the educational preparation of the dental hygienist and state dental practice acts and regulations, but always include, at a minimum, scaling and polishing the teeth. To avoid misleading the public, no occupational title other than dental hygienist should be used to describe this dental auxiliary.

Dental Hygienists in Saint Albans, VT

Speech-Language Pathologist

Ms. Catherine K. Lavigne is a Speech-Language Pathologist in Saint Albans, VT 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, Catherine K. Lavigne, 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.

Speech Language Pathologists in Saint Albans, VT

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