Our Services

These visits are provided free of charge and allow the client or parents of the client to discuss their concerns with a speech language pathologist. These visits are approximately 30 minutes in length. 

Evaluations and assessments are provided to determine what the individual needs to do to improve his/her communication skills. The assessment is the initial phase of the treatment process.

Articulation refers to speech sound production. Sounds that are misarticulated call attention to how the speaker sounds rather than to what he/she is discussing. 

Language therapy covers a wide range of services. Therapies differ depending on age, abilities, and goals. We will be able to determine a therapy program after an assessment. 

The oral mechanism and its functions are addressed in therapy for articulation improvement and swallowing disorders in infants and adults. Each case requires individual assessment to determine where the oral motor difficulties lie.

A fluency disorder is a “speech disorder” characterized by disruptions in smoothness, rhythm, and continuity of sounds, syllables, words or syntactic language units during speaking. Disfluencies in speech are more commonly referred to as stuttering.

Language processing is the ability to attach linguistic meaning of increased complexity to auditory information that is received and to then formulate a response. The auditory information is received accurately however the child has difficulty attaching meaning to it as the linguistic difficulty of the task increases.

Individuals may have good linguistic ability and be able to use a variety of sentence structures that are syntactically, morphologically and semantically correct, but lack the ability to monitor when to most effectively and appropriately use them. Therapy is designed to help the individuals learn how to use language socially.

We are trained in using the The Compton PESL accent modification method  which helps individuals  to modify their accents. Using this method, studies have shown increases in pronunciation clarity and accuracy of at least 50% by the majority of students who complete the training program.