Speech-Language Therapy
•Have difficulty with pre-language skills. This includes gesturing, babbling, imitating sounds, making eye contact or facial expressions.
•Display weakness or lack of coordination in facial and oral musculature necessary for speech and feeding. The child may have excessive drooling, be unable to manipulate food while eating, or have unclear verbal language.
•Have an aversion to specific textures or flavors of food/drink and may become frustrated when new foods are introduced.
•Have difficulty chewing, sucking from a straw/bottle, or frequently have food or liquid spilling from the mouth.
•Have trouble producing understandable sounds, letters, words needed to communicate with others.
•Exhibit problems with receptive language such as understanding and following directions or expressive language such as forming phrases or sentences or naming objects and family members.
•Have difficulty using appropriate behavior and language within social situations or understanding indirect requests and facial expressions or body language from others.
•Have difficulty with speech including articulation (clarity of speech), stuttering, and vocal quality.
Speech-Language Therapy facilitates and improves language, oral motor, cognitive skills, and social skills. AAD provides services in a natural environment for the child, most often the child's home. However, this can also include day care settings, playgrounds, libraries, etc. Therapy is provided one on one by a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist based on the individual needs of your child. Spanish speaking therapists are available.
We invite you, the parent, to sit in on the sessions, ask questions, and learn about ways you can help facilitate your child's speech and language skills.
Our services help children who: