Speech Therapy Services
Language & Movement Pediatric Therapy provides the following types of therapies:
- Birth to five intervention focuses on parent training and interactive communication skills for infants and preschoolers with speech and language delays.
- Articulation and phonological process therapy utilizes techniques such as oral motor intervention and multisensory feedback with children whose speech is difficult to understand.
- Pragmatic language therapy facilitates functional communication skills for children with Down Syndrome, Nonverbal Learning Disorders (NLD), and Autistic Spectrum Disorders.
- Auditory processing treatment uses state of the art computer technology and multisensory language training with children and adolescents.
- Fluency intervention for stuttering in young children can change the course of developing behaviors or minimize disfluent speech patterns.
- Fluency intervention for older children and adolescents is based on the Hollins Precision Fluency Shaping Program which replaces stuttering speech patterns with normal speaking patterns.
- Voice therapy improves voice quality, resonance and pitch disorders which result from conditions such as vocal nodules, chronic laryngitis, or vocal fold dysfunction.
- Language therapy includes comprehension/expression impairments in semantics (vocabulary), syntax/word morphology (grammar), and/or pragmatics.
- Oral motor therapy increases strength/endurance of tongue-lip-jaw movements in order to improve speech/feeding skills.
- Swallowing therapy increases airway protection by facilitating the swallow reflex, squeezing food down the throat, and voluntarily closing off the airway.
