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Expressive and Receptive Language Therapy
What is an Expressive & Receptive Language Disorder?
Expressive and receptive language skills are used to communicate with others effectively. Expressive and Receptive language disorders are terms that professionals used to describe listening, understanding, and expressing (through talking or other means such as sign language).
Receptive language means the ability to understand information. It involves understanding the words, sentences, and meaning of what others say or what is read. Expressive language means being able to put thoughts into words and sentences, in a way that makes sense and is grammatically accurate.
If a person has trouble understanding others or sharing thoughts, ideas, and feelings, the person may have a receptive or expressive language disorder.
Are You or Your Child Having Difficulty:
Understanding language: Receptive
•Following directions
•Understanding what gestures mean
•Answering questions
•Identifying objects and pictures
•Reading comprehension
•Understanding a story
Producing language: Expressive
•Asking questions
•Naming objects
•Using gestures
•Using facial expressions
•Making comments
•Syntax (grammar rules)
•Semantics (word/sentence meaning)
•Morphology (forms of words)
Pragmatic and Social Skills
What are Pragmatic and Social Skills?
Social pragmatics pertain to the social use of language, including how you or your child interacts with others. This includes what we say, how we say it, our body language, taking turns in conversation, expressing interest in another person’s comments and ideas, and even knowing when not to speak. Pragmatic skills are essential for how we communicate with others and participate in social groups such as our families, school settings, and within our communities.
•Turn-taking
•Eye contact
•Using humor
•Asking questions
•Facial expression
•Body language
•Intonation of voice
•Conversational skills
•Offering/responding to expressions of affection appropriately
•Asking for help or offering help appropriately
•Asking for clarification
•Body distance and personal space
•Introducing and maintaining topics
•Making relevant contributions to a topic
•Avoiding repetition or irrelevant information
•Adjusting language based on the situation or person
•Using appropriate strategies for receiving attention and interrupting
•Using the language of a given peer group
Are You or Your Child Having Difficulty:
Our speech therapists use professional techniques to improve speech clarity and teach oral structural placement to clients who struggle to produce or imitate speech sounds using traditional auditory or visual input. We focus on giving you or your child the necessary tools and strategies needed to communicate their needs, ideas, and thoughts to the world.
Together we will determine individualized goals and a plan of action according to you or your child’s needs. Our speech-language pathologists will work closely with you, the parents, and additional caregivers throughout therapy, ensuring everyone is working together towards the primary goal.
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Our speech therapists use professional techniques to improve speech clarity and teach oral structural placement to clients who struggle to produce or imitate speech sounds using traditional auditory or visual input. We focus on giving you or your child the necessary tools and strategies needed to communicate their needs, ideas, and thoughts to the world.
Together we will determine individualized goals and a plan of action according to you or your child’s needs. Our speech-language pathologists will work closely with you, the parents, and additional caregivers throughout therapy, ensuring everyone is working together towards the primary goal.
Stuttering Therapy
Speech Language
What is Stuttering?
Stuttering is a disfluency in speech—there are a few different types of disfluencies. You or your child may repeat parts of words (repetitions), stretch a sound out for a long time (prolongations), or have a hard time getting a word out (blocks).
Stuttering is more than disfluencies in speech.
Stuttering may diminish one's self-confidence and create tension and negative feelings about talking.
The following types of disfluencies occur when someone stutters:
•Part-word repetitions – "I w-w-w-want a snack."
•One-syllable word repetitions – "Go-go-go away."
•Prolonged sounds – "Ssssssssam is funny."
•Blocks or stops – "I want a (pause) cookie."
Are You or Your Child Having Difficulty:
Our speech therapists use professional techniques to improve speech clarity and teach oral structural placement to clients who struggle to produce or imitate speech sounds using traditional auditory or visual input. We focus on giving you or your child the necessary tools and strategies needed to communicate their needs, ideas, and thoughts to the world.
Together we will determine individualized goals and a plan of action according to you or your child’s needs. Our speech-language pathologists will work closely with you, the parents, and additional caregivers throughout therapy, ensuring everyone is working together towards the primary goal.
Oral Placement Therapy
What is Oral Placement Therapy?
Oral placement therapy (OPT) is the coalescence of auditory, tactile, and visual stimulation to improve speech clarity. OPT is used to advance articulator awareness, stability, placement, and muscle memory, which are all critical for the development of clear speech.
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• Dysarthria
• Apraxia of speech voice disorders
• Fluency disorders
• Post cardiovascular accident
• Mild-to-profound levels of hearing loss
Are You or Your Child Having Difficulty:
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Our speech therapists use professional techniques to improve speech clarity and teach oral structural placement to clients who struggle to produce or imitate speech sounds using traditional auditory or visual input. We focus on giving you or your child the necessary tools and strategies needed to communicate their needs, ideas, and thoughts to the world.
Together we will determine individualized goals and a plan of action according to you or your child’s needs. Our speech-language pathologists will work closely with you, the parents, and additional caregivers throughout therapy, ensuring everyone is working together towards the primary goal.
Auditory Processing
What is Auditory Processing Disorder:
Auditory processing disorder is a hearing disorder that disrupts how an individual’s brain understands what they are hearing.
People with auditory processing disorder (APD) have a difficult time hearing small sound differences in words. If someone says, "Please raise your hand," and you/your child hear something like "Please haze your plan" or you say, "Look at the cows over there," and they may hear, "Look at the clown on the chair" they may need to be evaluated for APD.
APD, also known as central auditory processing disorder, is not hearing loss or a learning disorder, but more so a reflection of the brain not "hearing" sounds in the usual way.
Are you or your child having difficulty with:
•Listening to music?
•Following conversations?
•Knowing where a sound came from?
•Remembering spoken instructions, particularly if there are multiple steps?
•Comprehending what people say, especially in a loud place or if more than one person is talking?
As a parent, or caregiver,
ask yourself:
•Are conversations hard for my child to follow?
•Are verbal (word) math problems hard for my child?
•Do my child's listening behaviors and performance improve in quieter settings?
•Are noisy environments overwhelming when my child is trying to listen?
•Does my child have trouble following verbal directions, whether simple or complicated?
•Does my child have trouble with spelling or phonics?
•Does my child often mishear sounds and words?
If the answer is yes, you are not alone! We have a community of professionals to work with you or your child to support them in their ability to read, write, and spell.
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Our speech therapists use professional techniques to improve speech clarity and teach oral structural placement to clients who struggle to produce or imitate speech sounds using traditional auditory or visual input. We focus on giving you or your child the necessary tools and strategies needed to communicate their needs, ideas, and thoughts to the world.
Together we will determine individualized goals and a plan of action according to you or your child’s needs. Our speech-language pathologists will work closely with you, the parents, and additional caregivers throughout therapy, ensuring everyone is working together towards the primary goal.