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Speech Therapy

Our pediatric speech and language therapists provide assessment and intervention services that focus on helping children speak, understand language, and learn to their fullest potential. Pediatric Speech Therapy focuses on improving a child’s communication skills by addressing the following subjects:

Expressive and Receptive Language

Receptive language refers to how your child understands language. Expressive language refers to how your child uses words to express himself/herself.

Articulation

Articulation is the ability to physically move the tongue, lips, teeth and jaw to produce sequences of speech sounds, which make up words and sentences.

Phonological Awareness

Phonological awareness lets kids recognize and work with the sounds of spoken language. In preschoolers, it means being able to pick out rhyming words and count the number of syllables in a name. It also involves noticing alliteration (how sounds repeat themselves).

Literacy and Vocabulary​

Language and literacy development are major domains of early childhood development. They involve development of the skills used to communicate with others through languages (language development), as well as the ability to read and write (literacy development).

Fluency

Fluency refers to the smoothness or flow with which sounds, syllables, words, and phrases are said when talking. It helps the child to speak terms like stuttering, stammering or cluttering fluently.

Augmentative and Alternative Communication​

Augmentative and alternative communication encompasses the communication methods used to supplement or replace speech or writing for those with impairments in the production or comprehension of spoken or written language.

Apraxia of Speech​

Apraxia of speech (AOS)—also known as acquired apraxia of speech, verbal apraxia, or childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) when diagnosed in children—is a speech sound disorder. Someone with AOS has trouble saying what he or she wants to say correctly and consistently.

Auditory and Language Processing Disorders​

Kids with Auditory Processing Disorders have trouble interpreting what they are hearing; but not necessarily have hearing loss. Language Processing Disorder can affect receptive language (comprehension), and/or expressive language, or how the child is able to convey their thoughts effectively.

Feeding Therapy

Feeding Therapy helps children overcome aversions to specific food textures, smells, or tastes and improve their oral motor skills for effective eating.

More to Come

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