McGehee Hospital Welcomes New Speech-Language-Pathologist
Jaycee Merritt, MCD, CF-SLP, joined McGehee hospital in January 2024.
Jaycee is a Speech-Language-Pathologist who provides inpatient and outpatient services here at McGehee hospital. Jaycee is from Star City, AR and graduated with both her Bachelor’s and Master's of Science in Communication Disorders from Arkansas State University.
Outpatient services: Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) work to prevent, assess, diagnose, and treat speech, language, social communication, cognitive-communication, and swallowing disorders in children and adults.
- Cognitive communication: Memory, problem solving, reasoning, orientation, awareness, organization, executive functioning.
- Speak Out! Parkinson’s voice therapy certified
- Swallowing, feeding, other oral motor deficits
- Augmentative/Alternative communication
- Expressive/receptive language disorders
- Voice therapy
- Fluency
- Dysarthria
- Aphasia
- Apraxia
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