Dr. Debra Mehuron Suiter PH.D.
Speech-Language Pathologist
807 JEFFERSON AVE MEMPHIS TN, 38105About
Dr. Debra Suiter is a speech language pathologist practicing in MEMPHIS, TN. Dr. Suiter specializes in speech, language and swallowing disorders in patients. As a speech language pathologist, Dr. Suiter evaluates, diagnoses and treats patients with communication and swallowing troubles. These conditions may be due to developmental delay, brain injury, hearing loss, autism, stroke or other diseases and injuries. Dr. Suiter helps patients make sounds and improve their voices through various methods. Speech language pathologists also work with patients to strengthen muscles used to speak and swallow, and work with individuals and families to help cope with their conditions.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Effects of cuff deflation and one-way tracheostomy speaking valve placement on swallow physiology.
- Effects of neuromuscular electrical stimulation on submental muscle activity.
- Effects of flexible fiberoptic endoscopy on pharyngeal swallow physiology.
- Oxygen saturation and heart rate during feeding in breast-fed infants at 1 week and 2 months of age.
- Clinical utility of the 3-ounce water swallow test.
- Effect of nasogastric tubes on incidence of aspiration.
- Answering orientation questions and following single-step verbal commands: effect on aspiration status.
- An epidemiologic study on aging and dysphagia in the acute care hospitalized population: 2000-2007.
- Silent aspiration risk is volume-dependent.
- Sentence intelligibility before and after voice treatment in speakers with idiopathic Parkinson's disease.
- Can an oral mechanism examination contribute to the assessment of odds of aspiration?
- Validation of the Yale Swallow Protocol: a prospective double-blinded videofluoroscopic study.
- Five days of successful oral alimentation for hospitalized patients based upon passing the Yale Swallow Protocol.
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