CHILDREN THERAPY SERVICES
Treatment for children with a variety of communication impairments
Language Learning Disability
Articulation Delay/Disorder
Speech/Language Disorder
Developmental Disability
Phonological Processing Disorder
Fluency
AUTISM – ASD
ADHD
Specific Learning Disability
Dyslexia
Childhood Apraxia of Speech
Cerebral Palsy
Auditory Processing Disorder
Selective Mutism
Intellectual Disabilities
Down Syndrome
SPEECH SERVICES
Speech Sound Impairments
If your child produces distorted sounds, unintelligible words, (s)he is hard to understand by you or others, if (s)he produces speech that is characterized by hesitations, disfluencies, repetitions, etc., it is highly probable that the child has one of the following impairments:
Articulation
Fluency – Stuttering/Cluttering
Phonological Disorders
Apraxia of Speech
Dysarthria
These impairments, if not treated, will impact the child’s home, school, and social interactions. They will impact his/her classroom participation and may also affect literacy development.
It is important to get your child diagnosed as early as possible so that interventions can start to prevent further decline and to decrease risks of
LANGUAGE SERVICES
Receptive
&
Expressive
Language Impairments
Receptive Language – Understanding what we hear
Expressive Language – Expressing ideas/messages effectively
Reading
Writing
AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS
&
SOCIAL (PRAGMATIC) COMMUNICATION DIS
ASD & SCD
It is very important to diagnose ASD or SCD as early as possible so that appropriate interventions can begin.
Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder that is characterized by difficulty with social communication and restricted, repetitive behaviors.
SCD refers to difficulty with social communication yet the children with SCD do not meet the criteria for an ASD diagnosis based on DSM-5.
Children with ASD or SCD have difficulty to identify basic emotions and link them to events or situations, are unable to relate their experiences to their own emotions of happiness, sadness, fear, etc., or understand that another person’s outward emotions may differ from that person’s inward emotions.
Some strong indicators that a child may have an ASD or SCD disorder are as follows:
– By 6 months, no warm smiles or joyful expressions are present
– By 9 months, exchange of smiles, sounds, or facial expressions are not present
-By 12 months, the child does not babble
– By 12 months, communicative gesturing does not exist
– By 16 months, there are no single word productions
– By 24 months, the child does not produce any meaningful two-word phrases and echolalic phrases may be present
– If at any age, the child presents with significant loss of any language or social skill