Speech-Language Pathologists
Speech-Language Pathologists assist children in developing the speech and language skills necessary for effective communication as well as assisting children with feeding disorders.
Therapy includes activities to remediate or augment communication process and improve oral motor development.  SLPs incorporate creative treatment strategies to facilitate a child’s progress.
Areas our therapist may provide evaluation and treatment include but are not limited to the following:
  • Receptive language and expressive language development
  • Articulation, voice, fluency, dysarthria, apraxia
  • Communication skill and social interactions
  • Cognition, problem solving reasoning, orientation, and memory
  • Pre-speech and feeding skills, swallowing and motoric speech disorders
  • Augmentative and alternative communication
  • Sign language

Definitions of the above mentioned areas:
Receptive language: difficulties understanding what is being said to them
Expressive language: unable to form meaningful messages using age
appropriate grammar or word finding difficulties
Articulation/speech: unable to produce age appropriate sounds
Social language: difficulties with turn taking, initiation and maintaining a
conversation, repairing conversation break downs, perspective talking,
and interpreting non verbal cues.
Feeding and swallowing: difficulties with swallowing liquids or food
Oral motor: difficulties with muscle function and/or motor planning that affect
the child’s ability to eat, drink, or speak.
Augmentative: assisting non verbal children to communicate with a
communication device or PECS (Picture Exchange Communication System)


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