Individual Treatment.

We provide individual therapy for birth-adult aged individuals designed to address::

• Articulation and phonology disorders
  • We provide PROMPT-based treatment
• Oral motor delays including:
  • weakness,
  • hypertonia, hypotonia
  • reduced range of motion
• Fluency disorders including:
  • stuttering
  • cluttering
  • verbal organization difficulties
• Receptive language delays
• Expressive language delays
• Language processing
• Meta-cognitive language skills including:
  • figurative language
  • comprehending multiple meanings
  • critical thinking, making inferences,
  • problem solving,
  • determining main idea and purpose
• Executive Functions

We specialize in the following:

• Pragmatic language
  • Using language for different purposes
  • Changing language according to the needs of a listener or situation, such as:
    • Talking differently to a baby than to an adult
    • Giving background information to an unfamiliar listener
    • Speaking differently in a classroom than on a playground
  • Following rules for conversations and storytelling, such as:
    • Taking turns and sharing conversational space
    • Initiation, maintenance and closing of conversation and social interaction
    • Use of facial expressions, body language and eye contact
    • Comprehending and responding to nonverbal cues such as body language and facial expression
    • Tone of voice and volume
• Social Thinking / Social Cognition
  • Perspective taking
  • Empathy
  • Flexibility
  • Being part of a group
  • Reciprocity
  • Mapping expected/unexpected behaviors for different activities and situations
  • Problem solving
  • Emotional regulation and regulation of reactions
  • Understanding what people mean by what they say