Types of Therapy

Therapy offered:
	- Articulation - Phonological - Dysphagia - Oral motor - Language delays and disorders

Language Intervention
The speech language pathologist uses pictures, books, toys, play, songs, etc. to interact and stimulate language in children. The SLP models language and sometimes has a child repeat sentences to increase a child's use of language.

Articulation therapy
Articulation deals with the way a child produces a particular sound or a group of sounds. The SLP will use exercises that focuses on the particular sound or sounds that the child has difficulty producing. Some examples of sounds that are produced incorrectly are “r” sounds like “w”, “th” sounds like “d” or “f”, “s” sounds like “th”. Again the speech language pathologist models the correct pronunciation of the target sound. These exercises can be done through play, table top activities, or simply saying words that begin with the sound in error. Also correct production of a sound can sometimes be achieved by physically showing a child how to produce the target sound.

Oral Motor/Feeding
The speech language pathologist uses various techniques and exercises to increase oral awareness, range of motion, and strengthen the oral musculature that would facilitate functional use of the oral mechanism. This type of intervention is beneficial for children who are experiencing difficulty obtaining sufficient nutritional intake, drooling, and fatiguing during meals. Additonally, children who are having difficulty coordinating movements of the mouth to produce speech would also benefit from oral motor exercises.

Intensive Speech Therapy & Co-treatment
Intensive speech therapy consists of therapy for 4 to 5 days a week for up to one hour a day for a three week period. Speech therapy can be integrated into your child’s 4 hour session of physical or occupational therapy, as a co-treatment session. Providing that the child can tolerate being stimulated by two types of therapy simultaneously, a co-treatment session can be beneficial. A co--treatment session does not happen all the time and the child is still seen one-on-one by each individual therapist. The way a co-treatment session functions, for example, is while the child is being handled by a physical or occupational therapist for positioning, to maintain proper alignment (with or without the Therasuit), the speech language pathologist can address feeding, oral motor, or speech and language goals.

Additional therapies offered at our clinic:
	- Occupational Therapy - Physical Therapy - Intensive Pediatric Therapy - TheraSuit Method - CranioSacral Therapy

Other services offered in our building:
	- Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy - Accupuncture - Massage Therapy