| Speech Therapy? What is it and who needs it? People may require the services of a speech-language
pathologist if they have recently suffered a stroke, if their speech is slurred and have difficulty swallowing, if a child's words and sentences are
difficult to understand, or for Parkinson's patients who can't speak loud enough to be heard, for those who have recently suffered a head injury and
can't seem to follow instructions or remember family members, and for those, both young and old, who often choke or cough while eating.
Front: Michelle Pearson, middle: Kathy Topping, Ruth Hiland, Karen Malone, top: Toni Maniscalco, Maureen Litton.
Located in downtown Trinidad, Mariposa Rehabilitation Center is the only therapy clinic between Albuquerque and Colorado Springs that specializes
solely in treating speech and language disorders. Karen Malone, owner and president, began her practice at Mt. San Rafael Hospital in 1997 as a one
woman show. Within three years she opened her Trinidad Clinic which now employs four speech-language pathologists, as well as two support staff. Her
therapists have 62 years of combined experience and three hold masters degrees. The clinic is a spacious 2,100-square-foot facility, featuring a group
therapy room, a sensory integration room, an adult therapy room, and a hearing booth to conduct Pure-Tone® hearing evaluations, as well as a kitchen
and private office space. The therapists spend a great deal of time outside the clinic providing services on-site at day care centers, hospitals,
schools and at patients’ homes. Mariposa's clients have included a two-week-old baby with cleft palate, a two-year-old child with delays in speech
and language development, a teenager with cerebral palsy, a patient in his 30s with head injuries suffered in a vehicle accident, a fifty-year-old
Parkinson's patient, a seventy-year-old stroke patient, and a one hundred-year-old patient with feeding and swallowing problems. “Our mission is to
bring state-of-the-art speech and language therapy services to this region. Mariposa has the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of its
patients, and we're proud to be able to fill these needs,” says Malone.
Karen Malone
Mariposa serves the southern Colorado and northern New Mexico area, to include individual patients, schools and health care facilities from La Veta,
Colorado to Springer, New Mexico. Mariposa's therapists regularly provide speech language services to Springer, New Mexico schools, Miners Colfax
Medical Center in Raton, the Spanish Peaks Regional Health Center/Colorado State Veterans' Center in Walsenburg, Walsenburg's Care Center, Trinidad
State Nursing Home, COG Daycare Center in Trinidad, Southern Colorado Developmental Disabilities in Trinidad, Colfax General Nursing Home in Springer,
and the Head Start programs in Trinidad and Walsenburg. Mariposa's therapists and staff are permanent residents of their communities, dedicated to
providing quality health care, as well as being good neighbors. Call the center for specific information, or ask your physician if speech therapy
services might improve the quality of life for you or a loved one.
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Mariposa Rehabilitation Center
417 N. Commercial St.
Trinidad, CO 81082
719/ 846-4178 |
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