Our Services

Expressive Language Disorder is a difficulty producing language and communicating wants and needs in a clear and efficient manner. Therapy focuses on combining words into sentences, with a special focus on vocabulary, grammar, story retell, and word recall. Receptive Language Disorder is a difficulty understanding language. Therapy includes a range of comprehensive exercises including following directions, reading comprehension, and answering questions. A child can sometimes have both language disorders at the same time.

Articulation disorders present as difficulty forming particular speech sounds properly. Someone with a Phonological Processing Disorder can produce the sounds correctly, but may use them in the wrong position of a word. Therapy approaches differ depending on the type of disorder and focus on correct production through a variety of strategies and use of verbal, visual, tactile cueing and prompting.

Childhood Apraxia of Speech is a specific type of speech sound disorder in which the planning and/or programming of the movements to produce speech is inefficient. This means that although a child with CAS may know what they want to say, their mouth may not move the way it needs to in order to say words clearly. Treatment for this disorder focuses on frequent and intensive practice of movement, multi-sensory input, feedback, and prosody.

Although a Speech & Language Pathologist cannot diagnose Autism Spectrum Disorder, we can help with associated speech and language deficits and difficulties. This involves helping the child or young adult communicate verbally, nonverbally, or socially in more functional, effective ways. We aim to strengthen communication skills and the understanding of language through a combination of sign language, assistive technology, verbal language and social communication.

Stuttering is a speech disorder characterized by repetition of sounds, syllables, or words, and prolongation of sounds in connected speech. Our therapy helps the client increase fluency through strategies that encourage a healthy attitude about speaking, and empower them to reduce the severity and frequency of disfluencies through stuttering modification techniques.

Social Communication Disorder and difficulties with social language involve challenges with both nonverbal and verbal communication skills used in various settings. Therapy focuses on the ability to strengthen language skills for common, tangible social purposes, helping them to learn the rules of conversation, and change language according to the circumstance.