Voice and throat difficulties can arise from a number of different causes, including misuse of your voice, muscle tension, vocal cord nodules, polyps, vocal cord haemorrhage, head and neck cancer and laryngo-pharyngeal reflux.
Voice therapy can help to improve your voice and throat problems by teaching you about your voice and giving you exercises to help you learn how to use your voice and throat muscles properly again.
The Speech and Language Therapy Team currently offers voice therapy at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital and Good Hope Hospital in outpatient clinics.
We offer appointments during the day, and we also have dedicated evening clinics across sites every fortnight to offer our patients a flexible and easy to access service.
What will Speech and Language Therapy involve?
The Therapist will assess your voice/throat and give you exercises and advice to follow at home.
Therapy input can vary from one appointment to longer-term intervention. Your voice/throat problems may not get better straight away but you can expect gradual improvement over time, if you follow the advice given.
How do I get referred for SLT?
Please click on the following link for information on referrals to Speech and Language Therapy
Where do I go for my Appointment?
If your appointment is at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, you will be seen in the Speech and Language Therapy Department, which is situated at the top of the Outpatients corridor on the left hand side just before the main ward block. If you need help, you can ask at the help desk in the hospital’s main reception area and they will give you directions to follow.
If your appointment is at Good Hope Hospital, you will be seen in the Treatment Centre. The Speech and Language Therapists are based in clinic rooms in the ENT area on the first floor of the treatment centre. Please take a seat in the ENT waiting area and your therapist will call you.
If your appointment is with Solihull Community service, appointments are held at Shirley clinic, Bishop Wilson clinic in Chelmsley Wood and Solihull Hospital ENT department. You will be advised of the location of your appointment and provided with the necessary directions.
How do I get there and where can I park?
Please see the “useful information” links on the right hand side of this page
If you require hospital transportation (i.e. ambulance taxi service), your GP practice should arrange this for you via West Midlands Ambulance Service.
