Speech Therapy Services
Our Speech-Language Pathologists are among the most highly qualified professionals in the field and have a minimum of 5 years of experience working with the pediatric population. An experienced speech-language pathologist will evaluate all aspects of your child's communication skills and design an individual treatment plan that will insure that your child achieves optimal therapeutic success. Treatment will focus on helping your child to achieve his/her goals through various fun, exciting, interactive activities designed to enhance speech and language skills during every step of their treatment process. Parents will be given an update on progress, instructions for working with their child at home, and home activities after every treatment session.
Our Services:
Our Services:
- Comprehensive evaluation of speech intelligibility, language, auditory processing, fluency/stuttering, voice, and swallowing/eating difficulties
- Evaluation and treatment related to Augmentative and Alternative Communication needs
- Hearing Screenings
- Individual treatment sessions for all types of communication disorders
- Therapeutic Groups to improve social skills related to Autism and PDD
- Therapeutic Groups to enhance speech growth, development, and carryover skills during conversation with peers
- Treatment of delays/disorders including, but not limited to:
- Childhood Apraxia of Speech: a neurological childhood (pediatric) speech sound disorder in which the precision and consistency of movements underlying speech are impaired in the absence of neuromuscular deficits (e.g., abnormal reflexes, abnormal tone). The core impairment is in the programming of the speech musculature resulting in speech sound production errors as well as errors in the prosody of speech
- Articulation: ability to correctly produce speech sounds to form words (i.e. speech intelligibility)
- Phonology: how speech sounds are organized and used in language
- Receptive Language: understanding what is spoken or written (e.g. following directions)
- Expressive Language: ability to use words in order to express wants/needs (e.g. vocabulary, grammar)
- Pragmatic Language: understanding and using the rules of social language
- Fluency: speaking without hesitations or repetitions (e.g. stuttering or cluttering)
- Voice: speaking in a pleasant voice without shouting or sounding hoarse, breathy, etc.
- Phonological Awareness: an early reading skill related to the awareness of the sounds in words (e.g. rhyming, segmenting words into sounds)
- Dysphagia: swallowing difficulties related to food texture/temperature issues and/or choking when eating or drinking