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Services
We Offer
KidSpeak
Language Learning Services specializes in helping children succeed
at reading and writing. Thorough training in phonological awareness,
literacy-based therapy, and focusing on the connection between oral
and written language, children reading and writing below grade
level are able to improve their skills.
- Screenings,
Evaluations, Diagnosis, and Individualized Therapy for All Ages
- Autism
- Apraxia
of Speech
- Auditory
Processing of Speech
- Cleft
Lip and/or Palate
- Hearing
Impairment
- Language
Disorders and Delays
- Stuttering
- Neurological
Disorders Affecting Auditory and Reading Comprehension, Verbal
Expression, and Writing Skills
- Cognitive
Reorganization
- Summer
Programs to Bridge the School Year for School-aged Children
Assessment
Services
A speech-language pathologist assesses your child's speech, language,
and communication abilities to determine whether a communication
problem exists. Assessment identifies a child's communication
strengths and weaknesses and identifies goals for therapy. Parent
interview, observation, and formal testing are procedures used to
assess children. Play-based and informal testing procedures are
emphasized with very young children and with children who are
difficult to formally test (e.g. children with autism).
The
specific areas tested during assessment are determined by the concerns
identified at the time of referral and may include: oral motor
functioning, articulation skills, expressive vocabulary and
grammatical development, understanding of language, fluency, vocal
quality, social communication skills, pre-reading, early reading,
spelling, and written language abilities.
Individual
Therapy Services
Individual speech and language therapy sessions are available to
children who are experiencing any type of communication difficulty.
During therapy sessions, children are engaged in games and activities
that are designed and/or selected to teach specific communication
goals. Therapy sessions are always fun and most times, children do not
even know they are working hard to learn essential skills! Parents are
active participants in their child's therapy program. Parents may
observe therapy sessions directly and are encouraged to ask questions
and to practice with their child at home between therapy appointments.
Individual
therapy services are provided by speech-language pathologists, or by
our communicative disorders assistant who works under the direction of
a speech-language pathologist. The frequency of therapy sessions
varies from child to child and is determined by carefully considering
the severity of the child's difficulty as well as numerous practical
factors (e.g. finances, additional publicly funded services available
to the child, family schedule and availability).
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