Speech Therapy
Find your voice. Strengthen your skills.
Care to make greater communication possible.
Being understood can change how you connect with the world. Mahaska Health provides personalized inpatient and outpatient speech therapy to help children and adults build skills, regain abilities, and take part more fully in everyday life.
Schedule Speech Therapy:
Call 641.672.3306
Send a Referral:
Fax 641.672.3123
How speech therapy can help
Speech and language
Build clearer speech and stronger skills for understanding language, expressing thoughts, and communicating with others.
Cognitive communication
Strengthen memory, attention, organization, and problem-solving skills that affect communication.
Voice
Address changes that affect how speaking sounds or feels.
Feeding and swallowing
Build skills that support safer, more comfortable meals
Care for children and adults
For children
Mahaska Health supports children with developmental delays, autism, Down syndrome, speech sound delays, feeding challenges, and hearing-related communication needs.
For adults
Mahaska Health helps adults adapt to or recover from changes caused by stroke, injury, Parkinson’s disease, chronic conditions, or other health changes.
What to expect
Personalized evaluation
Your speech-language pathologist will learn about the challenges affecting you or your child and evaluate the skills related to those concerns.
Individual goals
Together, you will build a therapy plan around individual needs, abilities, and daily priorities.
Evidence-based care
Your therapist will use proven strategies to build practical skills and support continued progress.
Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to common questions about speech therapy for children and adults at Mahaska Health in Oskaloosa, Iowa.
Yes. Our speech-language pathologists work with children who have developmental delays, autism, Down syndrome, speech sound delays, feeding challenges, and hearing-related communication needs, as well as adults recovering from stroke, injury, Parkinson’s disease, or other health changes.
We address speech and language skills, cognitive communication (memory, attention, and problem-solving), voice changes, and feeding and swallowing difficulties.
A physician referral is recommended and may be required by your insurance. Call 641.672.3306 and our team will help confirm what’s needed for your situation.
We provide both inpatient and outpatient speech therapy services.
Speech therapy can begin as early as toddlerhood when developmental concerns are identified, and there’s no upper age limit — we treat adults of all ages, including after stroke or injury.
To schedule, call 641.672.3306. To send a referral, fax it to 641.672.3123.
Meet your speech therapist
Start building skills for everyday life.
Schedule speech therapy for you or your child at Mahaska Health.
Schedule Speech Therapy:
Call 641.672.3306
Send a Referral:
FAX 641.672.3123
Recognized for Excellence
Mahaska Health is the first Iowa Critical Access Hospital awarded four designated Centers of Excellence.
Cardiology | General Surgery | Maternity Care | Surgical and Medical Oncology