Speech Therapy

Receptive language or difficulty understanding language. This includes understanding what others are saying, following directions, recalling what others have said, attending to others, and responding to others.

Expressive language or difficulty expressing ones self. This includes using a broad or appropriate sized vocabulary when speaking, using full sentences, using poor grammar when speaking, difficulty telling a simple story, and difficulty replying to others.

Pragmatic/social language or difficulty with social communication skills. Difficulties can impact development of relationships, making/keeping friendships, participation in social situations, and the ability to have back and forth conversations with others. This includes understanding another persons tone of voice, body language, and emotions. 

Social skills individual/group or the use of expected social skills with other people. This includes using a safe and controlled environment to practice social skills either one on one with a clinician or in a small group setting to practice skills that may otherwise be too daunting in uncontrolled environments.

Cognitive Language or difficulty with memory, attention, perception, and executive functioning for the purposes of managing all tasks within our daily lives. For example, difficulty with the ability to think in a flexible manner, problem solve, plan/prioritize, reason, maintain and alternate attention between tasks, and time management. 

Speech or difficulty with making/producing speech sounds to create words. This includes being difficult for others to understand and/or speaking differently from other people their age. Some examples include: stuttering (fluency), difficulty with making speech sounds (articulation), or produce a pattern of speech sound errors (phonology).