Speech-Language Pathology
Speech-language therapy consists of specialized evidenced-based practice interventions to improve the individual’s communication and feeding/swallowing skills for a healthy, social quality of life. The speech-language pathologist will assess, diagnose, and treat individuals based on his/her specific needs.
The speech-language pathologist is an essential team member of the multidisciplinary team and collaborates with a multitude of professionals and parents based on the individual client’s needs.
We provide holistic and dynamic therapeutic services for the following:
Speech/Language
- Receptive Language
- Expressive Language: verbal and non-verbal/gestural
- Phonological development
- Articulation
Feeding/Swallowing
- Dysphagia (difficulties in all areas of swallowing)
- Feeding difficulties in newborn
- Feeding difficulties in children with craniofacial anomolies
- Oral motor deficits / weakness
- Food / oral motor sensory aversion
- NMES/VitalStim
Autism Spectrum Disorder and Social Communication Disorders
- Pragmatic Language
- Social Communication
- Turn Taking
- Functional Communication
Voice/Resonance
- Hyper/hyponasality
- Dysarthria
- Compensatory Articulation Errors Due to Velopharyngeal Dysfunction
Augmentative and Alternative Communication
- Gestures
- Sign (American Sign Language)
- Picture Exchange System (PECS)
- Light-tech and High-tech devices
Cognition
- Problem solving
- Memory
- Auditory processing
- Planning/sequencing
- Organization
Motor Planning
- Childhood Apraxia of Speech
- Dyspraxia of Speech
Fluency
- Stuttering
- Cluttering
Additional Services:
- Parent and community educational seminars
- Post Natal follow up for craniofacial newborns
- Nasopharyngoscopy