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Speech therapy helps children with communication disorders effectively express their thoughts and feelings in a variety of environments.

Language therapy helps  children not only comprehend both oral and written language but also produce language at the appropriate level.  Therapies are offered for a variety of disorders in both individual and small group settings.

Baby signs:  For babies and toddlers who are nonverbal.  By using signs, babies can “talk” with their parents before they can speak, giving them a way to communicate about the world around them.  

Articulation disorder:  Difficulty making the sounds necessary for intelligible speech

Phonological disorder: Difficulty classifying and organizing speech sounds, resulting in unintelligible speech

Apraxia of speech:  Difficulty organizing and executing movements of the speech muscles due to a neurological impairment

Sensory integration disorder:  Difficulty organizing and interpreting information from the senses - hearing, taste, vision, touch, balance, gravity position and movement

Language delay: Difficulty comprehending and/or producing language at the appropriate age level

Oral motor disorders:  Difficulty with articulation due to low muscle tone and proprioceptive awareness of the articulator ( mouth awareness)

Feeding problems:  For children who have difficulty with the suck, swallow, breathe process.  These children often have a tongue thrust that, in addition to affecting their ability to eat, suppresses the production of some speech sounds and often causes protrusion of the teeth.