Services | Speech, Language, and Feeding

Evaluations

Treatment/Therapy

Evaluations are tailored to your address your child's specific needs. Evaluations take place in your home, or your child's school or daycare. A parent/guardian is encouraged to be present during the evaluation to provide parent report and confirm observations. Based on your child's needs, the following areas may be evaluated:

* Receptive Language

* Expressive Language

* Speech (Articulation/Phonology)

* Apraxia

* Feeding

* Oral Motor Skills

* Fluency

* Voice

* Pragmatic/Social Language

* Cognitive Communication

Following an evaluation, goals will be created to address your child's specific areas of concern. Therapy methods vary depending on your child's preferences, and may include structured therapy tasks, play tasks, oral motor exercises, etc.

Services

Our Specialties

Speech

"Speech" is the way we use our lips, tongue, and jaw to produce sounds. If your child struggles with producing/pronouncing certain sounds, speech therapy will be aimed at improving these sound errors and increasing coordination when producing these sounds in words and phrases/sentences.

We may incorporate PROMPT and/or the Beckman Oral Motor Protocol for articulation concerns and motor speech disorders, such as Apraxia.

Language

"Language" is your child's ability to understand and use words for the purpose of forming sentences, engaging in conversation, making requests, asking and answering questions, expressing themselves, and much more!

If your child struggles with language, you may notice increased frustration as your child struggles to be understood. Language therapy is aimed at improving communication skills for various reasons, such as to communicate wants and needs, form requests, ask and answer questions, and more.

Feeding & Oral Motor

* Increase range of motion, strength and/or coordination of the lips and tongue

* Improve drinking from a bottle or cup

* Facilitate mature chewing patterns

* Facilitate normal jaw patterns

* Decrease Oral Defensiveness (averse reactions to sensations in/around the mouth)

* Decrease oral secretions (drooling)

* Introduce positive mealtime routines and behaviors

* Implement home feeding routines and schedules

* Reduce aversions to textures/foods

* Introduce foods and texture

* Parent coaching for when to discontinue use of pacifiers, introduce solid foods, introduce open cups, etc.

Pragmatic (Social) Language

"Pragmatic" (Social) Language is your child's ability to use social skills.

Cognitive Communication

"Cognitive Communication" is your child's ability to organize thoughts, maintain attention, use problem solving skills, and use memory techniques.

We are now accepting new clients

for Speech & Language Services!