Speech Therapy
Improving Children’s
Communication Skills
- A decreased ability to communicate
- Limited vocabulary for their age
- Poor articulation or are difficult to understand
- Stuttering or other fluency difficulties
Children with speech and language challenges have difficulty in one or more areas of communication. These difficulties may affect their ability to develop relationships, progress academically, understand others’ ideas and share their thoughts.
At Lampert’s Therapy Group we provide comprehensive evaluations to assess all areas of your child’s communication skills. Evaluations are centered around the specific needs of your child to identify their strengths and areas of need.
Treatment sessions are individualized, often play-based, and driven based on goals written through the identified areas of need. Parent involvement is encouraged and home programs and education is provided in order to ensure carry-over into your child’s natural environments.
Your child may benefit from speech-language therapy if they have demonstrated:
- Difficulty understanding what is said to them
- Difficulty following directions
- Poor verbal or written expression
- Difficulty listening in noisy environments
- Immature sentence structure
- Frequent use of nonspecific words
- Poor social skills
Speech and Language therapy treats disorders and concerns in the areas of:
Receptive and expressive language – the ability to understand and use language to communicate.
Pragmatic language and social skills
Articulation – using the structures and muscles of the oral mechanism to accurately project the sounds required
Voice -using appropriate pitch, volume, and intonation
Fluency – the ability to connect sounds, syllables, and words together smoothly
Speech Language Pathologists’ Role
Pediatric Speech-language pathologists are professionals who hold the ASHA Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology (CCC-SLP), which requires a master’s, doctoral, or other recognized post baccalaureate degree. ASHA-certified SLPs complete a supervised postgraduate professional experience and pass a national examination. Pediatric Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) work to prevent, assess, diagnose, and treat speech, language, social communication, cognitive-communication, and swallowing disorders in children and adults.
At Lampert’s Therapy Group our pediatric speech therapists work as team with our occupational therapists, physical therapists, and behavior analysts to ensure that communication skills are practiced in each discipline.
Depending on the needs of your child, assessments will include a thorough evaluation of receptive and expressive language:
Therapy is contingent upon the results of the evaluation. This may result in therapy being recommended on a weekly or biweekly schedule.
Our company provides Occupational, Physical, and Speech Therapy services. We are a therapist owned company and pride ourselves on quality and personalized service.