ST
Speech Therapy
What is Speech Therapy?

Speech and Language Therapy is a service provided to children and young adults who have deficits in the areas of communication, language skills, oral motor, feeding/swallowing, or hearing. The Speech Language Pathologist works closely with the client and their caregivers to achieve their optimal potential so that they can participate more fully in daily living activities, community settings, and family interactions.

What are the Benefits? 
Improvements in a variety of functional areas including, but not limited to:
• Fluency
- Stuttering
- Cluttering
• Speech Production 
- Motor planning and execution
- Articulation
- Phonological
• Cognition 
- Attention
- Memory
- Problem solving
- Executive functioning
• Auditory Habilitation/Rehabilitation 
-Speech, language, communication, and listening skills impacted by hearing loss, deafness
-Auditory processing
• Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)

• Specialized Programs and Certifications: 
-Beckman Oral Motor Assessments and Interventions 
-Clinical Autism Specialists

• Language
Spoken and written language (listening, processing, speaking, reading, writing, pragmatics)
- Phonology
- Morphology
- Syntax
- Semantics
- Pragmatics (language use and social aspects of communication)
- Prelinguistic communication (e.g., joint attention, intentionality, communicative signaling)
- Paralinguistic communication (e.g., gestures, signs, body language)
- Literacy (reading, writing, spelling)

•Voice and Resonance

•Feeding and Swallowing
- Oral phase
- Atypical eating (e.g., food selectivity/refusal, negative physiologic response)

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