Pediatric Therapy
Children may not develop speech and language skills within a typical range of time for a variety of reasons.
Let Happy Hearts Speech Therapy determine a plan for helping your child reach their fullest communication potential. Your child’s therapy will begin with a comprehensive evaluation. Following the evaluation, a personalized plan and treatment goals will be established based on your child’s individual needs. Parent and family involvement is welcomed and encouraged to help your child succeed.
Speech Therapy
Speech is how we say sounds and words. Speech therapy is the treatment of speech disorders. Evidence-based speech therapy strategies and techniques are used to improve communication.
Examples of speech sound disorders include:
Articulation/Phonology- refers to the way sounds are produced
Apraxia of Speech- refers to a motor speech disorder that makes it hard to speak
Dysarthria- refers to a motor speech disorder caused by muscle weakness
Sensory/Perceptual- caused by hearing loss
Fluency- the rhythm of speech
Voice- refers to how we use our vocal cords and breath to make sounds
Language Therapy
Language refers to a structured system of communication in order to share our wants, needs, and ideas. Language therapy is the treatment of language disorders in order to improve receptive and expressive communication.
Receptive language- refers to how we understand and process what others are saying
Expressive language- refers to how we share our own thoughts, ideas, and feelings
Pragmatic language- refers to how we use language socially
Reading and writing are written forms of language, where reading is written language comprehension and writing is written language expression
