Pediatric
Therapy Partners’ Speech-Language Pathologists enjoy working with children and their families to help
improve their child’s skills in the areas of communication, feeding,
articulation, social, cognitive, and voice that are
needed for a child to participate in everyday activities.
Speech-Language
Pathologists help children with both verbal and non-verbal means of
communication, both receptively (what they hear) and expressively (what they
say). They also teach others language skills which include what words mean, how
to make new words, and how to put words together to put into sentences. They
show how speech sounds are made and demonstrate the use of voice and breathe to
produce different sounds. The therapists provide interventions for phonological
disorders, oral motor skills, swallowing and feeding disorders, clarity of
speech, fluency, hearing and language disorders, cognitive and voice deficits,
auditory processing disorders, reading delays, and autism spectrum disorders.
At Pediatric
Therapy Partners there are several speech-language therapists who have received
certification and extensive training in the Fast ForWord Programs,
Beckman Massage, Talk Tools Oral Motor Program, Sequential Oral Sensory (S.O.S.)
Approach to feeding, intervention and strategies for children with autism
and/or on the spectrum and cochlear implants. To better the services at Pediatric Therapy
Partners, the Speech–Language Pathologists have developed “Teams” to provide
education and support to their colleagues and families that they serve. Such teams include: Hearing Impaired,
Autism/Children on the Spectrum, Feeding, and Assistive Technology.
Speech
therapists use a variety of treatment techniques to achieve predetermined goals
and outcomes. Speech-Language Pathologist,
Tiffany Voigt, shares with us that the best activities for speech are games and
tasks that children do every day. She explained how they can work on
direction following, making requests, labeling objects/toys, and answering
questions during daily routines.
“Now
that it is warming up outside, you can have kids sequence what they need to do
before going outside and what they are going to do when they get outside or on
the playground,” she said.Thank your Speech-Language therapists today for playing such an important part in helping children communicate every day!
Pediatric
Therapy Partners offers a free screening that reviews overall developmental as
well as specific concerns including speech and hearing. If you have concerns
about your child, please call or visit our website at www.pediatrictherapypartners.com for
more information.
RESOURCES:
http://www.asha.org/bhsm/ http://www.speakingofspeech.com/
