At Spectrum Speech Therapy, our team of dedicated Speech-Language Pathologists with children…
• Who are not yet using verbal speech
• Who only use gestures to communicate
• Who have an articulation delay
• Who have an articulation disorder
• Who are having trouble coordinating their mouth movements to talk
• Who have a motor speech disorder like apraxia or dyspraxia
• Who have an injury resulting in loss of speech such as traumatic brain injury
• With language-based disorders and challenges
• With auditory processing disorders.
• Children with voice disorders.
• Children with social skills and pragmatic challenges.
• Children with behavioral differences
• Children with difficulty chewing and/or swallowing
• Children with a tongue thrust
• Children with an open bite
• Children who have excessive drooling
• Children who have low tone in their mouth
• Children with sensory differences
• Children who use Alternative & Augmentative Communication to verbally express themselves.
• Children who are Gestlat Language learners.
AREAS WE COVER IN SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPY:
• Receptive & Expressive Language
• Apraxia of Speech
• Articulation delay and disorder
• Phonological delay and disorder
• Augmentative & Alternative Communication (AAC)
• Stuttering and Cluttering
• Social Skills
• Language Delay and/or Disorder
• Executive Functioning deficits
• Listening & Reading Comprehension
• Written Expression
• Oral myofunctional Therapy
• Dysphagia
• Open bite
• Tongue Thrust
SYMPTOMS OF DELAYS AND DISORDERS:
EXPRESSIVE LANGUAGE DELAYS
• Poor ability to communicate wants and needs
• Limited vocabulary
• Poor grammar or sentence usage
• Difficulty finding the right word to say what they want
RECEPTIVE LANGUAGE DELAYS
• Difficulty pointing or showing everyday objects
• Difficulty understanding information given verbally
• Difficulty answering wh- questions (who, what, where, when, why)
APRAXIA OF SPEECH (ALSO DYSPRAXIA)
• Child knows what they want to say but they have difficulty coordinating the muscles to say the words.
• Trouble saying sounds, syllables and words that are not a result of muscle weakness.
• Unclear production of sounds
• Backing of sounds (saying “guck” for “duck”)
• Fronting of sounds (saying “tat” for “cat”)
• Deleting sounds (saying “oop” for “hoop”)
• Sound substitution (saying “deap” for “leap”)
• Difficulty saying /r/ (saying “wace” for “race”)
STUTTERING
Repeating part or whole sounds, syllables, words or phrases
• Blocking (or getting stuck) on certain sounds, syllables, words
• Excessive use of fillers such as um, you know
AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS (ASD), PERVASIVE DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS
• Difficulty with communication
• Difficulty with language expression
• Difficulty understanding language
• Difficulty with social interactions
• Poor attention, problem solving,
• Speech impairment
• Poor nonverbal communication
NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS (TBI, STROKE)
• Dysphagia (difficulty chewing and/or swallowing)
• Aphasia (neurogenic language disorder)
• Dysarthria (neurogenic speech disorder)
• Apraxia (motor planning deficit impacting oral movements and/or speech)