Dr. Heather Shaw Bonilha PHD CCC-SLP
Speech-Language Pathologist
1601 SAINT JULIAN PL COLUMBIA SC, 29204About
Dr. Heather Bonilha is a speech language pathologist practicing in COLUMBIA, SC. Dr. Bonilha specializes in speech, language and swallowing disorders in patients. As a speech language pathologist, Dr. Bonilha 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. Bonilha 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- Period and glottal width irregularities in vocally normal speakers.
- Vocal fold mucus aggregation in vocally normal speakers.
- Phase asymmetries in normophonic speakers: visual judgments and objective findings.
- Arytenoid adduction asymmetries in persons with and without voice disorders.
- Vocal fold phase asymmetries in patients with voice disorders: a study across visualization techniques.
- Creating a mastery experience during the voice evaluation.
- Vocal fold mucus aggregation in persons with voice disorders.
- Radiation exposure time during MBSS: influence of swallowing impairment severity, medical diagnosis, clinician experience, and standardized protocol use.
- Laryngeal sensation before and after clearing behaviors.
- Improvements in survival and neurodevelopmental outcomes in surgical treatment of hypoplastic left heart syndrome: a meta-analytic review.
- Preliminary investigation of the effect of pulse rate on judgments of swallowing impairment and treatment recommendations.
- Marginal costing methods highlight the contributing cost of comorbid conditions in Medicare patients: a quasi-experimental case-control study of ischemic stroke costs.
- The one-year attributable cost of post-stroke dysphagia.
- Task-specific singing dystonia: vocal instability that technique cannot fix.
- Rater methodology for stroboscopy: a systematic review.
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