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LANGUAGE
Receptive, Expressive, and Social Language
Language intervention may benefit a child, teen, or adult who...
-has delayed communication and verbal skills ("late talker")
-is delayed in their ability to combine words together and make sentences.
-difficulty learning new vocabulary, understanding what is said to them, or following directions at home or in the classroom
-has difficulty making grammatically correct sentences with correct verbs or pronouns, such as "him goed to the store yesterday".
-has difficulty remembering information, recalling events, or repeating information.
- has difficulty understanding what they read, whether it is a book, a text message, or a recipe.
-organizing their thoughts into cohesive ideas in speech or writing.
-difficulty with attention to language and sustaining attention through conversations, initiating tasks, and sustaining attention to complete tasks.
-difficulty engaging in social language routines such as turn-taking in conversation, talking to peers, and eye contact.
-any difficulty in understanding or using language in daily life.
After a comprehensive evaluation, the SLP will support a child's ability to understand and use language, including written language. This will help support your child's ability to access critical skills such as learn new vocabulary, understand spoken and written directions, communicate their needs to others, and comprehend what they read. This also applies to adults with Intellectual Disabilities who may still have difficulty with these skills.
The SLP will also work with your child or teen who may have difficulty with pragmatic (social) language skills such as turn-taking in conversation, interacting with same-aged peers, making eye contact, etc. The focus will not be in forcing your child to engage in behaviors/environments which cause them significant discomfort, but will instead focus on understanding the "why" behind their challenges. The main goal will be to increase self-advocacy, awareness, and understanding of the environment which best supports their needs. This also applies to adults with Autism who may still wish to improve on these skills.
The SLP will combine a variety of play-based, child/patient-directed, and clinician-directed interventions to keep therapy sessions fun and motivating!
While the SLP is unable to diagnose Autism and ADHD independently, I am able to recognize traits of these diagnoses and will make appropriate referrals once identified.
SPEECH
Articulation, Phonology, Motor Planning, and Stuttering
Speech intervention may benefit your child who has difficulty...
-developing new speech sounds or is not making sounds typical for their age
-is making frequent speech substitutions or errors such as "wabbit" or "rabbit", or "titty tat" for "kitty kat", lisping /s/
-is difficult to understand when they speak, especially to unfamiliar or new people
-becomes frustrated when they have to repeat themselves frequently or are not able to express their wants/needs clearly.
-difficulty producing fluent speech and have a "stutter" or "stammer"
After a comprehensive evaluation, the SLP will develop a treatment plan which will strengthen their ability to produce speech sounds and speak more clearly. The SLP will also work with you and your child on using strategies that will get their needs met and reduce frustration when they are not understood.
Evidence-based interventions will also be provided to individuals who have a motor-based speech difficulty which impacts control over the muscles used for speech as well as motor-planning of movements for speech. (apraxia and/or dysarthria)
The SLP will work to support the connection between speech sound development and literacy/spelling.
The SLP will also work with the child and family to avoid negative feelings about a stutter and reduce the amount of disfluent moments in their speech.