• Speech intelligibility/clarity

• Production of age-appropriate sounds and combinations

• Motor planning and coordination for speech

• Rhythm, rate, and prosody of connected speech

• Strategies for fluent speech

Areas of Treatment:

• Articulation Delays and Disorders - frontal and lateral lisps, distorted sounds

• Phonological Delays and Disorders- limited intelligibility, sound substitutions/ omissions/ additions, limited repertoire of sounds

• Play skills

• Multimodal communication including gesture, eye gaze, sign language, verbal language

• Understanding speech and gestures

• Vocabulary development

• Combining words into phrases and sentences

• Following directions

• Asking and answering questions

• Understanding and use of grammar and syntax: pronouns, plurals, possessives, negations, verb tenses, etc.

• Retelling stories and using descriptive language

Areas of Treatment:

• Late Talkers

• Receptive and Expressive Language Delays and Disorders

• Specific Language Impairment

• Autism Spectrum Disorder

• Introduction of solids or progression to increasingly challenging/varied textures

• Sensory processing

• Motor planning for chewing and/or swallowing

• Picky eating

• Parent Education

Areas of Treatment:

• Dysphagia

• Picky Eating and Food Refusal

• Oral Motor Skills (chew pattern, pocketing, lip closure, tongue movement, swallowing)

• Muscle Weakness/Discoordination

• Sensory Processing for Food Tolerance

• Highly individualized total communication approach using the modalities that best suite the child given their current communication skills

• No, low, mid or high-tech communication systems (eye gaze, gesture, sign language, static visual support, picture based systems, Big Mac, Go Talk, Tobii Dynavox, Ipad apps, Proloquo2go, Touch Chat)

• AAC device programming

• Functional communication

• Increase spontaneous communication

• Language and vocabulary development

• Social interactions and conversational skills

• Communication partner training

• Plan for future communication modalities

• Social-emotional awareness and knowledge

• Understanding of non-verbal communication and social cues

• Ability to play games and engage in turn taking

• Engagement in age appropriate conversations

• Interpretation and use of humor

• Responding appropriately in social situations.

• Managing conflicts and promoting problem solving skills

Areas of Treatment:

• Social/Pragmatic Language Disorders

• Build your repertoire of strategies to help your child communicate

• Learn how and when to prompt your child given their skills and learning style

• Incorporate communication into everyday routines and activities

• Understand how to engage your child in back and forth communication exchanges

• Manage mealtime and feeding challenges

• Modeling and teaching play skills

• Incorporating sensory motor strategies to support learning

• Behavior management strategies