• WHAT IS SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPY?
     

    Speech and Language Therapy
             is an intructional way for children and/or adults to learn how to:

    *communicate effectively both verbally and nonverbally

    *understand and comprehend spoken language

    *to use language effectively: both spoken language and written language



    USE AND DEVELOP SPEECH/ARTICULATION/PHONOLOGY    :

    *Children learn how to use their articulators ( lips, tongue, jaw, teeth) in an organized way to produce sounds/phonemes

    *Therapy is performed in a fun and playful manner utilizing different modeling techniques.

    We play games, and do art projects to illicit target sounds and to encourage correct productions of their sounds.

    Social Skills and Manners
    *The children are taught to respect their peers and to be "good listeners".
    * A lot of time is spent developing and improving social language in a variety of contexts.