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Focusing on building your child’s early social and language skills, emphasizing the development of play and social interactions.
Signs and Symptoms: Is your child unable to, or struggles with, any of these:
If your child has difficulty in one or more of these areas, they may benefit from our early childhood language stimulation program.
A language disorder can affect how a child understands what is being said to them, the way they express themselves, or both.
Affects a child’s ability to attend, recognize, retain, and comprehend what is being said to them.
Is your child unable to:
Or, does your child repeat words or phrases (echolalia) back?
If your child has difficulty in one or more of these areas, they may benefit from a speech and language therapy program.
Characterized by a reduced utterance length, reduced vocabulary, and reduced use of age – appropriate grammar.
Is your child unable to:
If your child has difficulty in one or more of these areas, they may benefit from a speech and language therapy program.
A group of disorders characterized by impairments in social interaction, imagination, verbal and nonverbal communication skills. Children diagnosed on the spectrum often appear to have a limited number of interests and activities that tend to be repetitive.
A child with ASD may:
Articulation difficulties affect the way a child produces specific sounds. It can include one sound or multiple sounds. Children with a delay in either area are typically difficult to understand. Sounds can be substituted, left off, added or changed. Children may make speech sound errors as part of normal development; however, these errors may persist past the age – expected range.
This involves patterns of sounds. For example, substituting sounds made in the front of the mouth, such as “t,” for a sound made in the back of the mouth, such as “k”. For a complete list of phonological processes, please click here.
An apraxia of speech is a motor speech disorder characterized by a difficulty in coordinating movements to produce sounds in isolation, as well as sequencing those sounds into words, phrases or sentences. [Can we turn those words into plain English?] Treatment focuses on establishing accurate motor patterns. Through repetition, the child learns to use those patterns at the word level and then move into phrases, sentences and conversational speech.
Not all children present with the same characteristics. General things to look for include:
A speech disorder in which sounds, syllables, or words are repeated or prolonged, disrupting the normal flow of speech. Children can also go through periods of normal dysfluency as they learn to speak. Physical behaviors or reactions may also be observed during the stuttering episode. Click here to learn more about stuttering and fluency.
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