Speech Therapy Services
Our pediatric speech therapists use a child’s work or “play” to obtain desired communication. A child’s speech or communication is the foundation for all peer and adult interactions. Speech is not only what a child says but how they play and gesture, how they problem solve and reason, and what information they can convey either verbally or through written language. Other aspects of treatment may include the development and training of alternative augmentative communication, oral motor abilities, swallowing and feeding skills. Our speech therapists diagnose and treat children with a broad spectrum of disorders which include but are not limited to:

Apraxia
Central auditory processing disorders
Autism and related spectrum disorders
Articulation and phonology disorders
Feeding/swallowing difficulties
Receptive and expressive language delays
Fluency disorders
Hearing impairments
Cleft palate
Down syndrome
Cerebral palsy

Your child may need to be referred to a speech therapist if:

By 0-12 months:
The child has feeding difficulties-coughing, choking, gagging

By eighteen months:
The child is not talking
The child is not pointing/gesturing for desired objects

By age two:
The child is not combining words.
The child exhibits limited vocabulary development.
The child is not responding to conversational speech.
The child is not identifying common objects/ body parts

By age three:
The child’s speech is nonfluent.
The child has no sentence structure.
The child’s speech is difficult for family to understand.
The child has trouble producing many sounds and/or is omitting many sounds
The child’s speech is limited to echoing other's statements, songs, rhymes, etc.

By age four:
The child’s communication skills are inadequate for social interactions.
The child’s sentence structure is noticeably faulty.
The child has trouble producing many sounds                                                                                                                                              
By age five: 
The child mispronounces any sounds.
       The child is having difficulty following directions.
       The child has poor interactions with peers.

By school age:
       The child inappropriately answers “who/what/why/when/where” questions.
       The child exhibits poor attention in school.
       The child exhibits difficulty with reading activities.
       The child exhibits memory problems
       The child is unable to write grammatically short sentences


Speech Milestones (external link)