Enriching your child’s world with words, and helping your child express themselves.
All children communicate in some form, even if nonverbal. It’s our job to help them communicate their wants and needs in a way that is understood by others. This ranges from developing oral motor control to making sounds to using words to create meaningful relationships.
What is Speech Therapy?
- Speech therapy uses a variety of functional daily activities and play-based techniques to improve a child’s ability to effectively express themselves, understand others, produce sounds clearly, use language socially, problem-solve, chew, and swallow.
- Primary areas of focus include: speech production, functional communication training, receptive and expressive language skills, and social interactions and interpersonal relationships.
- Our Speech Language Pathologists work in collaboration with other experts to improve all forms of communication and language.
What is the goal of Speech Therapy?
The goals of speech therapy vary based on every child's unique developmental needs, and our goal is to prepare every child for success now and in the future. As part of each child’s individual program, skills in the areas of communication and language acquisition are assessed and woven into their play-based sessions seamlessly and collaboratively. Some goals and benefits of speech-language therapy can include:
- Speech sound production
- Language comprehension
- Expressive language through gestures, speech, and/or alternative communication
- Speech fluency
- Social pragmatic communication
- Organizing, planning, and problem-solving
- Feeding and swallowing
Who delivers Speech Therapy?
Speech Language Pathologists (SLP)
- Master or Doctoral degree
- Conducts evaluations and reevaluations
- Designs, implements, and supervises individual speech-language interventions
- Bachelors degree
- Conducts speech therapy sessions created by supervising SLP
Speech Language Pathology Assistants (SLPA)
- Conducts speech-language therapy sessions
- Supervised by SLP
