Children come to speech therapy for a variety of reasons, but primarily because they have a difficult time being understood, or they have challenges forming appropriate sentences to express themselves and/or understanding what people say to them. Some children also develop fluency disorders (stuttering) that persists after an age where it typically is outgrown.
Pediatric Services
- Speech
- Articulation Delay
- Phonological Disorder
- Fluency
- Language
- Receptive Language
- Expressive Language
- Pragmatics (Social Skills)
Often when adults come to speech therapy they ask, why speech? This is understandable as many people don’t realize that Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) work on attention, memory, and executive function skills. These are often deficits that can occur after a stroke, TBI (traumatic brain injury), post-concussion, COVID-19, etc. Other deficits that are common after these incidents are word finding difficulty (when you know what you want to say, but it just won’t come out) and/or slurred speech.
Adult Services
- Aphasia (Word finding difficulty)
- Dysarthria (Slurred speech)
- Fluency
- Cognition
- Attention
- Executive Function
- Memory