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Speech Therapy

Pediatric Speech and Language Therapists work with your child to help your child learn language and speech skills that are important for communication in their everyday life.

Pediatric Speech-Language Pathologists:

  • Develop strength, coordination, endurance, and range of motion of your child’s mouth, lips and cheeks

  • Improve your child’s understanding and expression of language

  • Improve your child’s speech/sound production

  • Improve your child's ability to utilize strategies for disfluencies (stuttering)

  • Trial various forms of alternative augmentative communication (AAC) to improve your child's expressive language

  • Promote your child’s age-appropriate play, social, and interactive skills

Our Pediatric Speech and Language Therapists love to create an engaging and enjoyable treatment session using movement, games, toys, books and pictures that motivate your child to participate and grow their language and communication skills.

What are these communication skills?

  • Speak clearly

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  • Develop language both expressive (what they are saying) and receptive (what they are understanding)

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  • Ability to play

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  • Be social and interact with others

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  • Process what we hear

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  • A further focus of Speech and Language Therapy is on the development and strengthening of your infant or child’s oral-motor skills for feeding, drinking, and communicating

What are some of our programs?

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  • Early Language Development

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  • Language/Speech Development

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  • Articulation Intervention

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  • Fluency (Stuttering) Intervention

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  • Reading Programs

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  • Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)

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  • Picture Exchange Communication System - PECs

Could My Child Benefit From Speech-Language Therapy?

Children who could benefit from our services may display some of the following:

  • Not utilizing verbal language/gesturing for wants/needs

  • Is not saying mama or dada meaningfully

  • Mispronounces words

  • Has difficulty putting sentences together

  • Has difficulty following directions

  • Is not reaching developmental milestones

  • Does not play with toys appropriately

  • Has difficulty understanding what they just read

  • Has trouble interacting or keeping up with their peers

  • On a g-tube (lack of nutrition/aspiration risk)

  • Have oral motor weakness (excess drooling, difficulties sipping from straw, low tone, etc)

  • Delayed skills in feeding (chewing, materializing food to sides of mouth, etc)

How can we help?

Diagnoses and treaments include the following:

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  • Developmental Delays

  • Language Delay

  • Autism Spectrum Disorder

  • Cerebral Palsy/Dysarthric Speech

  • Articulation/Phonological Disorder

  • Language Based Reading Disorders

  • Voice Disorders/Stuttering

  • Genetic Syndromes

  • Apraxia of Speech

Speech-Language Pathologists promote speech/language skills through:

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  • Respiratory control

  • Early language development

  • Language/speech development

  • Articulation intervention

  • Augmentative communication

  • Social and pragmatic interventions

Specialty Programs include:

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  • Picture Exchange Communication

  • Augmentative Communication

  • Fluency Programs

  • Reading Programs

  • Gestalt Language Processing/Natural Language Acquisition

  • Seeing Stars reading program

Ready to take the next step?

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