Pediatric Speech Therapy
The speech therapy department provides diagnostic and treatment intervention for infants, children and adolescents with feeding/swallowing disorders and communication or learning concerns. Our staff is highly skilled, including master level speech/language pathologists.
Speech therapists also play a key role in educating parents and caregivers about 
child development and they provide information about disability and diverse learning needs. Some diagnosis treated include, but are not limited to: developmental delays, autism, down’s syndrome, cerebral palsy, cleft palate, spina bifida, prematurity, head injuries, upper body injuries, genetic disorders, birth defects, and muscle diseases.
Speech Therapy Includes . . .
Language therapy: language is the ability to use and understand meaningful symbols. Impairments include disorders of understanding what is heard or read, and disorders of expression, use of gestures or words. Diagnoses include aphasia, dysphasia, developmental language delay, language impairment, comprehension or production language disorder, language disability and phonological disorders.
Speech therapy: speech is the production of individual speech sounds and their combination into sequences to form words. There are various impairments of speech including disorders of respiration, phonation, resonance and articulation. Speech diagnoses include dysarthria, cleft lip and palate, velopharyngeal incompetency, phonologic disorders, articulation disorders, hypernasality, denasality, hoarseness, breathiness, apraxia and stuttering.
Feeding/Swallowing therapy: we offer diagnosis and treatment for children with behavior related feeding issues, failure to thrive (grow) and weight loss, feeding disorders, gastrointestinal motility problems, oral-sensory-motor problems, swallowing problems.
What does treatment consist of?
- Birth to Three
- Augmentative Communication
- Fast Forword
- Picture Exchange Communication System
- Language Therapy
- Speech Therapy
- Feeding/Swallowing Therapy