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Services
Speech-Language Evaluations: A comprehensive assessment of articulation (speech sounds), language (comprehension and verbal expression), and/or fluency (stuttering). This will include standardized testing, observation through interaction, as well as a full written report with recommendations.
Speech/Language Therapy: Goal-directed intervention to address problems with areas identified through the evaluation.
What We Treat
Receptive Language
The ability to listen and understand speech. This includes understanding sentences, following directions, understanding a story, or basic concepts.
Expressive Language
The ability to express thoughts and ideas. It includes using sounds, gestures, and words. It also involves grammar, content of the message, and vocabulary.
Language Delay
This occurs when a child is having trouble using language in some way, shape, or form. Each child with this diagnosis looks very different. Some have difficulty putting words together to form sentences. Some have difficulty using the correct vocabulary and words. Others have difficulty sequencing information together into a logical manner.
Articulation and Phonology
The production of speech sounds. When a child has difficulty producing specific sounds, speech intelligibility decreases, and the listener may not understand the child’s intended message. Phonological processes are patterns of sound errors that typically developing children use to simplify speech as they are learning to talk. These processes are considered normal unless they persist beyond the age when most typically developing children have stopped using them.
Feeding
Feeding therapy can make meal time fun again! We serve children with oral motor delays, sensory preferences, problematic feeding behaviors, and children weaning from feeding tubes. We will utilize an oral motor and systematic desensitization approach that is positive, playful, and most importantly-effective, in helping your child receive adequate nutrition.
Stuttering
Stuttering involves repeating parts of words, stretching a sound out for a long time , or having a hard time getting a word out. Stuttering also may include tension and negative feelings about talking.
Executive Function
Involves the cognitive skills needed for task initiation, impulse control, focus, time management, working memory, accepting change, task completion, organization, and self-regulation.
AAC
Augmentative and alternative communication involves all the ways people share their ideas and feelings without talking. AAC can include gestures, signs, picture symbols, and high-tech voice output systems.
Social Language
The language skills we use in our daily interactions. This includes what we say, how we say it, and our body language. It also includes the ability to judge what is expected in different situations and changing our language based on the needs of the listener and situation.
Apraxia
A motor speech disorder that affects the way the body is able to produce speech. Motor speech disorders are neurological in nature, meaning a child’s brain has difficulty coordinating the different body parts needed to produce speech. As a result of these struggles, children with apraxia can be difficult to understand.
Data
How do we know if our clients are making adequate progress in therapy? Data will tell us if our interventions are working! At Connect, our therapists dynamically collect data throughout sessions and track this data over time to measure change.
Home Program
Each child that receives therapy from Connect will also receive home practice to be completed with parents and caregivers. Parents play an essential role in their children’s progress. Parents have more opportunities throughout the day to experience, interact, and communicate during meaningful, everyday situations. It is important to implement home programs to ensure new skills are generalized and carried over to new environments.