Our Services

Speech Therapy

Speech therapy is treatment that improves your ability to talk and use other language skills. It helps you express your thoughts and understand what other people are saying to you. It can also improve skills like your memory and ability to solve problems.

You’ll work with a speech-language pathologist (SLP, or speech therapist) to find exercises and treatments that address your specific needs. Some people need help talking and communicating. Others need speech therapy to process and understand language better.

Speech therapy can help you improve your:

  • Early language skills (especially children learning to talk and communicate).
  • Ability to use your voice.
  • Language comprehension (how well you understand words and language).
  • Fluency (how well and how comfortably you can use language).
  • Clarity and expression (how easily you can communicate what you want to).

Aba Therapy

Applied Behavior Analysis analyzes relationships between a child’s environment and behavior, and applies the principles of positive reinforcement (rewards), and the adjustment of antecedents (what happens before the behavior) and consequences (what happens after the behavior) to increase or decrease significant behaviors.

ABA Therapy Can Help Your Child With These Skills:

  1. Adaptive and self-care skills
  2. Attending and social referencing
  3. Cognitive functioning
  4. Coping and tolerance skills
  5. Emotional development
  6. Familiy relationships
  7. Language an communication
  8. Play and leisure skills
  9. Pre-academic skills
  10. Reduction of interfering or inappropiate behaviors
  11. Safety skills
  12. Self-advocacy and independence
  13. Self-management
  14. Social relationships
  15. Vocational skills

Lee Silverman Voice Therapy

LSVT LOUD is an effective speech treatment for people with Parkinson's disease (PD) and other neurological conditions.  Named for Mrs. Lee Silverman (Lee Silverman Voice Treatment), a woman living with PD, it was developed by Dr. Lorraine Ramig and has been scientifically studied for over 25 years with support from the National Institute for Deafness and other Communication Disorders within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other funding organizations.

LSVT LOUD trains people with PD to use their voice at a more normal loudness level while speaking at home, work, or in the community. Key to the treatment is helping people "recalibrate" their perceptions so they know how loud or soft they sound to other people and can feel comfortable using a stronger voice at a normal loudness level.

What Are The Benefits of LSVT Loud?

Over the last three decades, LSVT Loud has received research funding from organizations such as the National Institute of Health. It is the only speech treatment with level-one evidence for those with Parkinson’s. People treated with LSVT Loud have noted the following changes:

  • Increased vocal volume
  • Improved speech articulation
  • Improved tone
  • Improvements in facial expressions
  • Changes in neural functioning related to voice and speech

LSVT Loud is customizable and unique to the goals of each patient. It can result in improvements across a range of conditions and impairments.

Play Therapy

Play therapy is defined as the systematic use of a theoretical model that establishes an interpersonal process, in which trained therapists use the therapeutic power of play to help children prevent or resolve psychosocial difficulties and achieve optimal growth.

Types of Play Therapy

The two main forms of play therapy used by play therapists are:

  1. Directive Play Therapy: With directive play therapy, the therapist takes a hands-on approach and leads the child through guided play activities to help them express themselves. They’ll typically give specific instructions and supervise the child as they go through it. 
  2. Non-directive Play Therapy: Non-directive play therapy makes use of a less controlled environment. The therapist leaves the child to engage in whatever play activities they might enjoy and express themselves with limited interference. 

Drooling management

One of the most frequently asked questions is oral placemant and feeding therapy is how to address copious drooling. Understanding the possible challenges which impact a client's ability to manage their secretions is essential to planning a program.

We are trained to work with children and adults with copious drooling.

Apraxia Speech Treatment Program

Apraxia of speech (AOS)—also known as acquired apraxia of speech, verbal apraxia, or childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) when diagnosed in children—is a speech sound disorder. Someone with AOS has trouble saying what he or she wants to say correctly and consistently. AOS is a neurological disorder that affects the brain pathways involved in planning the sequence of movements involved in producing speech. The brain knows what it wants to say, but cannot properly plan and sequence the required speech sound movements.

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