Speech Therapy
Speech therapy is provided for children who have difficulty with intelligibility. Children should be understood by strangers 100% of the time by 4 years old. Poor intelligibility can have many causes, but some of the most common are inaccurate storage of the sounds in the brain and motor planning of the oral structure.
Disorders treated with speech therapy include: Articulation Disorder, Phonological Disorder, and Apraxia of Speech.
Language Therapy
Language therapy is provided for children who have difficulty with language understanding (receptive) and formulation (expressive). We target, both individually and collectively, all areas of language: phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. We go beyond improving verbal language skill by aiming to improve receptive and expressive mastery of written language.
Disorders treated with language therapy include: Expressive and Receptive Language Delay, Pragmatic Language Disorder, Auditory Processing Disorder, and Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Reading Therapy
Reading therapy is provided for children who have difficulty with sounding out and spelling words, reading comprehension, and reading fluency. We treat reading disorders from the bottom-up. We understand that a child must go beyond sounding out words (decoding), if he is to be an effective reader, which requires synthesis, summation, recall, and generalization. Thus, reading therapy begins with learning sounds and it ends with composing essays.
Disorders treated with reading therapy include: Phonological Processing Disorder, Dyslexia and Hyperlexia.
Stuttering Therapy
Stuttering therapy is provided for children who have difficulty speaking smoothly. Typically, these children demonstrate, hesitations, prolonged sounds, and repetitions in their speech. Some children may speak too quickly and some may take too long to say what they are thinking. Still, others may move their bodies (e.g., arms, hands, feet) and faces when they are stuttering. Therapy to decrease these stuttering events addresses anatomical, psychological, linguistic, and cognitive strategies. Typically, children who stutter are aware of their stuttering and appreciate being able to talk with an understanding therapist about ways to decrease their disfluencies (stuttering events).
Disorders treated with stuttering therapy include: Stuttering and Cluttering.