Speech Therapy
Speech therapy (ST) is used to assess, diagnose, treat, and help to prevent disorders related to speech, language, cognitive-communication voice, swallowing and much more. Therapy is conducted by highly trained Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP). Therapy can include playful and fun exercises using audio-visual elements such as books, images, stories, etc. Teaching children to create certain sounds and pronounce certain syllables, often in a playful manner like a game. Encouraging children to talk to each other in group sessions. One-on-one sessions with an SLP to focus on specific issues.
Targeted Deficits
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Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)- Use of alternative ways to communicate (pictures/devices)
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Articulation/Phonology- Pronouncing speech sounds
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Auditory processing- How the brain processes information
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Cognitive impairments- Disruptions in the ability to think, concentrate, reason, and remember
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Fluency- Disruption of the fluency of speech (stuttering)
Much more!
Is your child meeting developmental milestones?
0-12 Months
12 Months
12-18 Months
18-24 Months
24-30 Months
24-30 Months
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Phonation (cry, burp, sneeze)
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Coos and Goos (produces vowels and consonant-vowel (CV or VC combinations)
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Exploration of voice and lungs (squeals, growls, yells, raspberries)
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Canonical Babbling (reduplicated syllables such as mama, dada, baba, wawa)
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Variegated Babbling (begins to use different CV syllables)
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Jargon (begins to use syllables with varied intonation patterns- sounding more speech-like)
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Produces first word
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Produces approximations (muh for milk)
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Imitates animal and play sounds (wee, yay, whoa, vroom)
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Child begins to intentionally label items
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Using 2-6 words OTHER than mama and dada
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Knows 50 words
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Uses a variety of words but they are mostly nouns
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Understands more words than they can say (150-300)
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Knows 200-300 words
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Child learns new words for animals, body parts, and simple verbs
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Beginning to put words together to use phrases
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Knows 450 words
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Uses positional words (in, on)
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Color words
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Can ask "what's that?"
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Early pronouns used (I, me, you, my)
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