Treatment Areas

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Articulation & Phonology
​The production of speech sounds.
Speech may be less intelligible when a
child deletes sounds, adds sounds,
changes sounds, or substitutes one
​sound for another.

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Apraxia of Speech
A motor speech disorder in which
children have problems sequencing
sounds, syllables, and words due to
difficulty planning movements
​of the articulators.

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Fluency
The smoothness, rate, and effort
​perceived in connected speech.
 The most common fluency
​ disorder is stuttering.

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Receptive Language
The ability to understand others’
 messages, evidenced through
 recognizing vocabulary,
 answering questions, and
​ ​following directions.

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Expressive Language
The ability to create messages that
 will be understood by others,
 requiring use of appropriate
 vocabulary, grammar, and
​ sentence structure.

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Pragmatic Language
The understanding and use
 of appropriate social
​ ​​communication. ​

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Phonological Awareness
An explicit and dynamic
 understanding of the sound
 structure of words. This skill is
 ​highly predictive of success with
​ reading and spelling.

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Reading & Spelling
The application of skills related to
 recognition, comprehension, and
 representation of written words.
 Treatment incorporates Lindamood-
​Bell and Barton methodology.

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Auditory Processing
The ability to perceive, encode,
 organize, recall, and use information
​ that is presented auditorily.​