Speech and Language Therapy

Speech Therapy

Speech delays and disorders arise when individuals struggle to produce speech sounds and patterns clearly, making their speech difficult to understand. Each age has specific speech sounds and patterns that should be mastered, and a delay occurs when a child hasn't yet developed these skills at the expected age. If not addressed, speech disorders can lead to frustration for the child, and may also affect phonological awareness, reading and spelling abilities, and overall self-confidence.

At Thriveable, speech therapy sessions are dynamic and engaging, incorporating each child's interests to keep them motivated while learning how to produce and practice specific speech sounds. We evaluate and treat the following speech disorders:

• Articulation disorders

• Phonological disorders

• Fluency disorders (Stuttering)

• Childhood Apraxia of Speech

• Dysarthria

• Voice disorders

Language Therapy

Receptive language refers to an individual's ability to understand language, such as vocabulary, directions, and concepts. Expressive language refers to an individual's ability to communicate their wants, needs, and ideas with other people. Pragmatic language refers to an individual's social language skills, such as engaging in conversations and understanding nonliteral language. Language delays and disorders occur when children do not meet key receptive, expressive, or pragmatic language milestones within the typical developmental timeframe.

At Thriveable, we evaluate and treat children of all ages for language delays and disorders, from early intervention when children are not yet talking, to understanding concepts like colors and sizes, to forming grammatically correct sentences, to helping high school students with reading comprehension and writing skills. Our sessions are tailored specifically to your child's individual needs rather than using a "one-size-fits-all" approach to therapy, as we know that each child learns differently. Children learn best through play, so we utilize a play-based approach to language therapy to make therapy engaging and effective. We also provide families with home programs to continue working on building language skills outside of therapy. We evaluate and treat the following language disorders:

• Early intervention for communication delays

• Receptive language disorders

• Expressive language disorders

• Mixed receptive-expressive language disorders

• Social/Pragmatic language difficulties

• Gestalt language processing

• Reading comprehension

• Written expression