Speech Therapy

Pediatric Speech and Language Therapists work with your child to help
your child learn language and speech skills that are important for communication in their everyday life.

Information Sheet:

What are these communication skills?

Ability to speak clearly
Ability to develop language both expressive (what they are saying) and receptive (what they are understanding)
Ability to play
Ability to be social and interact with others
Ability to process what we hear
A further focus of Speech and Language Therapy is on the development and strengthening of your infant or child’s oral-motor skills for feeding, drinking, and communicating.

What are these skills?

Ability to accept and eat a variety of foods
Ability to drink from a bottle or breast feed
Ability bite and chew foods appropriate

Pediatric Speech-Language Pathologists:

Develop strength, coordination, endurance, and range of motion of your child’s mouth, lips, and cheeks
Improve your child’s understanding and expression of language
Improve your child’s speech/sound production
Decrease your child’s stuttering behaviors
Improve your child’s swallowing patterns to reduce tongue thrust
Improve your child’s communication through the provision of augmentative communication systems
Improve your child’s eating and swallowing skill development
Promote your child’age-appropriatete play, social and interactive skills

Our Pediatric Speech and Language Therapists love to create an engaging and enjoyable treatment session using movement, games, toys, books and pictures that motivate your child to participate and grow their language and communication skills.

What are some of our programs?

Early Language Development
Language/Speech Development
Articulation Intervention
Beckman Oral Techniques

Swallow Right/Tongue Thrust Program
Sensory and Behavioral Feeding Programs for Picky Eaters
Breast/Bottle Feeding Intervention
Fluency (Stuttering) Intervention

Reading/Dyslexia Programs
Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
Picture Exchange Communication System – PECs.

Common diagnoses that our pediatric speech and language therapists treat:

Language Delay
Feeding/Oral Motor Difficulties
Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)
Genetic Syndromes
Articulation and motor speech disorders, including apraxia/dyspraxia, dysarthria
Neurological disorders (e.g., Cerebral Palsy, traumatic brain injury, stroke)
Receptive and expressive language disorders/delays
Fluency/stuttering

Phonologic Disorders
Craniofacial abnormalities
Pragmatic Language Disorders
Auditory Processing Disorders
Hearing Impairments and/or multi-sensory impairments
Sensory Processing Disorder
Cognitive/Attention Impairments
Literacy and pre-literacy issues (Reading)

READY FOR A FUN THERAPY ENVIRONMENT,
THAT TRULY CARES ABOUT YOUR CHILD AND YOUR FAMILY?

If you are interested in enrolling your child in the intensive strengthening program at PTS, please utilize the links below to complete the intake documents. Once your intake documents are received, you will receive a phone call to screen your child for the program as well as discuss scheduling. If you have any questions, please call (813) 662-1060.