Riitta Saari

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Riitta works with young people and adults, providing both individual and group speech therapy. In addition to her expertise in adult neurology, Riitta has expertise in orofacial and bite-related muscle function, and in voice therapy for functional voice disorders and for transgender clients. Riitta graduated as a speech and language therapist from the University of Turku in 2021. In her Master’s Thesis, she studied how healthy adults perform in tasks measuring auditory discrimination.

Riitta is qualified as an occupational health expert and also carries out assessments and rehabilitation as part of occupational health services.

Further training:

Assessment and rehabilitation of adult neurological speech and communication difficulties and holistic support of communication skills, language-cognitive communication difficulties, cerebrovascular disorders, brain injuries, progressive neurological diseases, swallowing difficulties, neurogenic voice and fluency difficulties.

Functional voice therapy, voice therapy for transgender clients, voice care

Rehabilitation of specific reading and writing difficulties

Selected training and qualifications:

SPEAK OUT!®: A Practical Approach to Treating Parkinson’s, SPEAK OUT!® & LOUD Crowd® Training, Supported Conversation for Adults with Aphasia (SCA™), Goal Attainment Scale (GAS), Three-Part Treatment Plan for Oral Placement Therapy (OPT™), Clinical Implications for Tongue Thrust and Lisps, Diagnosing & Treating Orofacial Myofunctional Disorders, VitalStim Plus, Electrical Stimulation and Treatment of Dysphagia, Trauma-informed speech therapy, Voice therapy for transgender clients, PÄTEVÄ 2 – Työterveyshuoltoon pätevöittävä koulutus asiantuntijoille (occupational health care qualification training for experts).

Client groups:

• Young people, working-age adults and older adults
  • Individual and group rehabilitation
  • Subacute and maintenance rehabilitation
  • Speech therapy assessment periods
  • Guidance-focused speech therapy periods
• Occupational health speech therapy consultations and therapy periods
• Cerebrovascular disorders: aphasia, dysarthria, dysphagia (swallowing difficulty), language-cognitive communication difficulties
• Progressive neurological diseases: Parkinson’s disease, ALS, MS, memory disorders
• Traumatic brain injuries and their after-effects
• Neurogenic voice and fluency difficulties
• Functional voice disorders, voice care, vocal ergonomics
• Voice therapy for transgender clients
• Assessment and rehabilitation of reading and writing difficulties (dyslexia)
• Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC)

Working languages: Finnish, English, French.

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