Services
Screenings
We offer brief screenings to identify potential deficits in communication. The screening consists of a 30-minute informal assessment of your child’s speech (how he/she pronounces sounds) and language (following directions, answering questions, processing information, naming vocabulary etc.), observing play and social interactions.
assessments
An evaluation is the measurement of a person’s communication skills to determine strengths and weaknesses in the area. The evaluation is done by a certified speech-language pathologist. You will receive a complete written evaluation report with formal assessment results, informal observations, background information, and recommendations.
Speech Evaluation:
- Oral mechanism: child’s ability to move oral structures.
- Sound production: determine error sounds that make speech difficult to understand.
- Fluency: child’s ability to speak fluently. Stuttering/disfluencies can affect the rate and rhythm of speech and can be accompanied by negative reactions and/or physical behaviors.
Language Evaluation:
- Receptive language: is the “input” of language, the ability to understand and comprehend spoken language that you hear or read.
- Expressive language: is the “output” of language, the ability to express your wants and needs through verbal or nonverbal communication.
- Pragmatic language: is the social language skills that we use in our daily interactions with others.
Feeding Evaluation:
During the evaluation, the SLP will observe your child eating and drinking in their typical manner in a treatment room.
- Child’s feeding and swallowing abilities.
- Oral structures function; strength and movements of their muscles involved in mastication and swallowing.
- Signs for the risk of food or liquid going into the lungs.
- Child’s position, behavior and oral movements might affect their eating and drinking.
- Provide feeding and swallowing recommendations.
Orofacial Myofunctional Evaluation:
Orofacial Myofunctional Disorders (OMDs) may interfere with normal growth and development of the muscles and bones of the face and mouth and how are used for eating, talking, and breathing.
- Mouth breathing vs nose breathing.
- Drooling, especially after age.
- Tethered oral tissue; lip tie and/or tongue tie.
- Oral structures function; strength and movements of their muscles involved in speech, mastication and swallowing.
therapy
Based on the results of the evaluation, the speech-language pathologist will work with you to develop a customized therapy program to address areas of concern. Therapy is always based on current research and driven by the needs and interests of our patients.
We specialized in children with:
- Articulation Disorders
- Phonological Processes Disorders
- Apraxia
- Fluency/Stuttering
- Delays due to Hearing Loss
- Receptive/Expressive Language Disorders
- Pragmatic Language Disorders
- Down Syndrome
- Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)
- Attention Deficit Disorders (ADD)
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Orofacial Myofunctional Disorders
- Feeding Difficulties