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WHAT IS SPEECH THERAPY?

Speech-Language therapy can look like many things. We have listed some areas of language that we work on which may fit the needs of your child.

Stacking Blocks

LANGUAGE

Child language therapy can include receptive or expressive language. Some examples include:

  • expanding utterances

  • vocabulary

  • sentence structures

  • answering questions

  • following directions

Mother and Child

SPEECH SOUND DEVELOPMENT

Speech sound treatment is also commonly known as articulation therapy to target specific sounds that a child has difficulty producing

  • articulation

  • phonology

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FLUENCY

Fluency therapy for all ages.

Commonly known as a stutter, but we like to focus on fluency. Therapy includes teaching about the cause of a dysfluency, the speech mechanism, and fluency shaping strategies.

Children Playing in Park

SOCIAL LANGUAGE

social groups are great for all age groups to target different social skills and building friendships with like minded individuals. Social groups target pragmatic skills including:

  • play skills

  • turn taking

  • conversational turn taking

  • perspective taking

  • being a part of a group

Mixed Race Down Syndrome Class

AAC

Alternative Augmentative Communication

AAC can look different for every child, including low-tech to high-tech, to no tech!

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Speaking Practice

MYOFUNCTIONAL THERAPY

Myofunctional refers to the function of the tongue.

This speciality focus looks at oral motor function and the implications of articulation, feeding, and swallowing.

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