BENEFITS OF SPEECH THERAPY

Speech therapy helps with improving receptive language skills:
• Following directions
• Identifying objects, pictures
• Increasing receptive language vocabulary
• Attending to tasks/activities
• Problem solving

Helps with improving expressive language skills
• Using words, gestures, alternative and augmentative devices
• Increasing expressive language vocabulary
• Requesting
• Expressing thoughts and ideas
• Maintaining conversation

Helps with improving speech
• Increasing speech intelligibility
• Phonological disorders
• Articulation
• Apraxia (motor speech movements)

Helps with swallowing/feeding
• Increase muscle strength
• Increase coordination of movements
• Increase/Improve diet (puree to solid foods)