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Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder. Children with autism present with differences in social communication, social interactions, and language skills. Depending on your child’s needs we may use a variety of therapies such as receptive/expressive language therapy, articulation therapy, social skills therapy, occupational therapy and more. If you suspect your child may have speech, language and or motor delays due to Autism, reach out to us for a complimentary parent consultation. It’s never too early to support your child’s development. 

Feeding developmental delays refer to conditions that affect a child’s ability to eat or drink in an age-appropriate and safe manner. These delays include avoidant or restrictive food intake, sensory food aversions, chewing or swallowing disorders. If you suspect your child may have a feeding delay, reach out to us for a complimentary parent consultation. It’s never too early to support your child’s development.  

A language delay involves understanding and communicating, both verbally and nonverbally. If your child has a language delay they may make the correct sounds and pronounce some words, but they can’t form phrases or sentences that make sense in an age appropriate manner or they may have difficulty understanding language. They may have difficulty understanding and interacting with others. If you suspect your child may have a language delay, reach out to us for a complimentary parent consultation. It’s never too early to support your child’s development. 

Motor Skill Delays are when your child is showing slow development of fine-motor or gross-motor abilities. Fine motor abilities include things like grasping a pencil, handling a spoon or buttoning up a shirt. Gross-motor abilities include things like walking, hopping, climbing stairs and getting dressed. If you suspect your child may have a motor skill delay, reach out to us for a complimentary parent consultation. It’s never too early to support your child’s development.

For some children, it can be difficult to cope with the number of environmental stimuli constantly around. For others, they may require a large amount of environmental input in order to feel grounded or engaged. Understanding how sensory input can be changed, added, or reduced within the environment, can assist your child with self-regulation, frustration tolerance, and overall engagement. If you suspect your child may have sensory processing challenges, reach out to us for a complimentary parent consultation. It’s never too early to support your child’s development.

Speech sound disorders (or Articulation Disorders) is the inability to correctly form age appropriate sounds which may be having an impact on your child’s ability to express themselves in a clear way.  If you suspect your child may have an articulation delay, reach out to us for a complimentary parent consultation. It’s never too early to support your child’s development.

Stuttering is a normal part of your child learning to talk, however they eventually outgrow this by age 3 ½. If you continue to notice differences in your child’s speech patterns, such as repetitions or prolongations of sounds, words or phrases, as well as secondary behaviors such as facial grimaces or avoiding speaking situations altogether, reach out to us for a complimentary consultation. It’s never too early to support your child’s development.

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder. Children with autism present with differences in social communication, social interactions, and language skills. Depending on your child’s needs we may use a variety of therapies such as receptive/expressive language therapy, articulation therapy, social skills therapy, occupational therapy and more. If you suspect your child may have speech, language and or motor delays due to Autism, reach out to us for a complimentary parent consultation. It’s never too early to support your child’s development. 

Feeding developmental delays refer to conditions that affect a child’s ability to eat or drink in an age-appropriate and safe manner. These delays include avoidant or restrictive food intake, sensory food aversions, chewing or swallowing disorders. If you suspect your child may have a feeding delay, reach out to us for a complimentary parent consultation. It’s never too early to support your child’s development.  

A language delay involves understanding and communicating, both verbally and nonverbally. If your child has a language delay they may make the correct sounds and pronounce some words, but they can’t form phrases or sentences that make sense in an age appropriate manner or they may have difficulty understanding language. They may have difficulty understanding and interacting with others. If you suspect your child may have a language delay, reach out to us for a complimentary parent consultation. It’s never too early to support your child’s development. 

Motor Skill Delays are when your child is showing slow development of fine-motor or gross-motor abilities. Fine motor abilities include things like grasping a pencil, handling a spoon or buttoning up a shirt. Gross-motor abilities include things like walking, hopping, climbing stairs and getting dressed. If you suspect your child may have a motor skill delay, reach out to us for a complimentary parent consultation. It’s never too early to support your child’s development.

For some children, it can be difficult to cope with the number of environmental stimuli constantly around. For others, they may require a large amount of environmental input in order to feel grounded or engaged. Understanding how sensory input can be changed, added, or reduced within the environment, can assist your child with self-regulation, frustration tolerance, and overall engagement. If you suspect your child may have sensory processing challenges, reach out to us for a complimentary parent consultation. It’s never too early to support your child’s development.

Speech sound disorders (or Articulation Disorders) is the inability to correctly form age appropriate sounds which may be having an impact on your child’s ability to express themselves in a clear way.  If you suspect your child may have an articulation delay, reach out to us for a complimentary parent consultation. It’s never too early to support your child’s development.

Stuttering is a normal part of your child learning to talk, however they eventually outgrow this by age 3 ½. If you continue to notice differences in your child’s speech patterns, such as repetitions or prolongations of sounds, words or phrases, as well as secondary behaviors such as facial grimaces or avoiding speaking situations altogether, reach out to us for a complimentary consultation. It’s never too early to support your child’s development.

Feeding and swallowing are involuntary movements developed in the womb, but sometimes they need to be taught or retaught. Feeding challenges can be related to picky eating or sensory aversions or difficulty with swallowing (called dysphagia). Swallowing happens in three stages and your child can have difficulty with one, some, or all of these phases. 

Fluency of speech refers to the smoothness, continuity, rate and effort that goes into speech production. Fluency Therapy is all about learning how the air moves between each sound to make language clear and easy to understand. One of the strategies we use is breath work to help raise awareness of how speech and breath is connected.

There are three main aspects to language: receptive, expressive and pragmatic language. Your child could present with delays in one, some or all of these area of language development. This type of therapy is often used for children with Autism and other communication delays.

Occupational therapy for children helps your child gain independence while strengthening fine, gross, sensory and visual motor skills. All of these movement skills are necessary for your child to engage in play, daily self-care tasks and classroom activities. This type of therapy is often needed for your child if they’re presenting with Autism, ADD/ADHD and Sensory Processing Disorder. 

Social communication is the way we use language in a variety of social contexts. Social communication includes the way we interact with others, pragmatic skills, social language processing and cognition. We often use social skills therapy when treating children with Autism and other language delays.

As you may have noticed, some sounds come sooner – and more easily – than others. Vowels as well as P’s, B’s, and M’s tend to develop early on, while R’s come later, and sometimes with more difficulty. Speech Sound Therapy is beneficial for treating all kinds of speech and sound delays in children.