Services

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  • Teletherapy

  • Preschool Speech & Language Screenings & Therapy

  • Speech & Language Evaluation and Treatment

  • Receptive and Expressive Language Delay and Disorders

  • Social Communication Disorders

  • Childhood Apraxia of Speech

  • Speech Sound Disorders: Articulation and Phonological Disorders

  • Fluency Disorders: Stuttering & Cluttering

  • PROMPT Therapy

  • Bilingual Therapy

  • Auditory Processing

Teletherapy

Speech teletherapy allows clients to have access to speech therapy from the comfort of their home via their computer or mobile device on a secure video conferencing platform. Telespeech is delivered via interactive and engaging activities and allows for parents to become part of the therapy process.  Telespeech has been researched and clinically proven to be as effective as face to face treatment.

Pre-school speech and language screenings 

A pre-school speech and language screening is a short evaluation (15-20 minutes) to assess a broad range of speech and language skills in children from age 2.5 to 5 years of age. It evaluates a child's language understanding and use, production of speech sounds, speech fluency, vocal quality, and social language skills.The speech-language pathologist will then determine if the child passed the screening or if they will recommend a full speech and/or language evaluation.

Speech & Language Evaluation and Treatment

A speech and language evaluation is an in-depth assessment that includes a case history, client and family interview, review of auditory, visual, motor and cognitive status and standardized and/or non-standardized measure of specific aspects of speech and/or language skills. Based on the results of the evaluation, a treatment plan is developed.

 

Receptive and Expressive Language Delays & Disorders

A receptive and/or expressive language disorder is a communication disorder in which one or both areas of communication may be affected. Children with this disorder may have difficulty understanding words or following directions and difficulty expressing themselves.

 

Social Communication Disorders

A social communication disorder is characterized by difficulty with the use of verbal and nonverbal language for social purposes. Primary difficulties are in social interaction, social cognition, and pragmatics. The child may struggle with initiating and maintaining a conversation, engaging in social events, adjusting communication style in different environments, interpreting body language, and interpreting figurative language.

 

Childhood Apraxia of Speech

Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is a motor speech disorder that becomes apparent as young children are learning to speak. Apraxia of speech is also referred to as verbal apraxia, developmental apraxia of speech, or verbal dyspraxia. CAS is a speech sound disorder in which the precision and consistency of the speech sounds are impaired due to neuromuscular deficits.

 

Speech Sound Disorders: Articulation and Phonological Disorders

Speech sound disorders is an umbrella term that refers to disorders involving the perception and/or production of speech sounds. Articulation disorders involve distortions or substitutions of sounds whereas, phonological disorders involve predictable, rule-based errors (e.g., fronting, stopping, and final consonant deletion) that affect more than one sound.

 

Fluency Disorders: Stuttering & Cluttering

Fluency is the aspect of speech production that refers to continuity, smoothness, rate, and effort. Stuttering is the most common of fluency disorders and typically originates during the preschool years. All speakers produce some form of disfluencies such as hesitations, repetitions and interjections. Less typical stuttering-like disfluencies include part-word or sound/syllable repetitions, prolongations and blocks or the inability to make a sound.  Cluttering is a fluency disorder that impacts the clarity of speech due to a rapid and/or irregular rate of speech. Both, stuttering and cluttering can have a negative impact on school, work and social interactions.

 

PROMPT Therapy

PROMPT is an acronym for Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets. The PROMPT Therapy technique is a tactile-kinesthetic approach that uses touch cues to a client’s articulators (jaw, tongue, lips) to manually guide them through a targeted word, phrase or sentence. It can be used to treat a variety of speech disorders. Learn more about PROMPT Therapy at https://promptinstitute.com/.

 

Bilingual Therapy (Spanish/English)

Identifying a communication disorder in a bilingual individual requires careful consideration of the multitude of factors that influence communication skills. We use bilingual therapy to treat clients with true communication disorders that are evident in both languages used.

Auditory Processing

Auditory processing disorder (APD) is a disorder characterized by difficulty processing and interpreting sounds even though there is no evident hearing impairment. Children with APD typically have normal hearing, however things break down between what is heard by the ear and what the brain processes. Children with APD may not be able to quickly interpret what they hear. This is not because of a lack of understanding of the meaning of what is said, but rather the sounds of spoken langage itself.

Symptoms include the inability to distinguish between separate sounds, the ability to focus on important sounds in a noisy setting, the ability to recall what is herd, and the ability to recall sounds or words in the right sequence.