Speech Therapy definition

Speech Therapy means medically prescribed diagnostic and treatment services provided by or under the supervision of a certified speech therapist.

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Speech Therapy means a course of treatment, ordered by a Physician, to treat speech deficiencies or impediments.

Speech Therapy means General Treatment that is:

Examples of Speech Therapy in a sentence

• Except as specified above and as stated under the Home Health Care Benefits and Hospice Program Benefits sections, no outpatient benefits are provided for Speech Therapy, speech correction, or speech pathology services.

• Covered Benefits Coverage includes benefits for rehabilitation services including Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, and Speech Therapy for the treatment of individuals who have sustained an illness or injury that CareFirst BlueChoice determines to be subject to improvement.

• Habilitative and rehabilitative services (such as Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy and Speech Therapy) are subject to the limits defined in this Agreement.

• Habilitative services 20% coinsurance 20% coinsurance after deductible Includes Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapy.

• Benefits for Speech Therapy are described in the section on Speech Therapy benefits.

More Definitions of Speech Therapy

Speech Therapy means the identification and treatment of neurological deficiencies related to feeding problems, congenital or trauma-related maxillofacial anomalies, or neurological conditions that affect oral motor functions and includes the evaluation and treatment of problems related to oral motor dysfunction.

Speech Therapy means the treatment for the correction of a speech impairment resulting from disease including pervasive developmental disorders, trauma, congenital anomalies or previous therapeutic processes and which is designed and adapted to promote the restoration of a useful physical function. Speech Therapy does not include educational training or services designed and adapted to develop a physical function.

Speech Therapy means a medically-prescribed speech or language-based service that is provided by a licensed speech therapist and identified in the Enrollee Care Plan, and that is used to evaluate or improve an Enrollee's ability to communicate.

Speech Therapy means a program of care that evaluates the patient’s motor-speech skills, expressive and receptive language skills and writing and reading skills, and determines if the patient requires an extensive hearing evaluation by an audiologist. The therapist also evaluates the patient’s cognitive functioning, as well as his or her social interaction skills such as the ability to maintain eye contact and initiate conversation. Therapy may also involve developing the patient’s speech, listening and conversational skills, and higher level cognitive skills such as understanding abstract thought, making decisions and sequencing. Therapy may be considered medically appropriate even for patients who do not have apparent speech problems, but who do have deficits in higher level language functioning as a result of trauma or identifiable organic disease process.

Speech Therapy or “Speech Pathology Service” means General Treatment that is:

Speech Therapy or “speech pathology” means the services provided by a speech pathologist as set forth in section 20-408 of the Connecticut General Statutes;

Speech Therapy means the remediation or rehabilitation for speech and language impairments.