Specialty

Speech Language Therapy – Pediatric

Speech therapy is the evaluation, treatment and support of children with speech, language, social-communication and swallowing difficulties. Services are recommended based on each child as an individual as they have their own strengths and challenges.

About

What can we help with?

Speech-language pathologists (SLP) treat children with a wide variety of disabilities, conditions and injuries that impact their communication and swallowing, specifically:

  • Expressive language (using language)
  • Receptive language (understanding language)
  • Speech sound disorders
  • Feeding/swallowing
  • Fluency (stuttering)
  • Motor speech disorders (apraxia of speech)
  • Literacy (reading skills and comprehension)
  • Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
  • Social communication/skills
  • Voice disorders
  • Oral motor strengthening and range of motion therapy (suck therapy)
  • Orofacial Myofunctional Disorders (OMDs)