Speech and language therapy can help children develop effective communication skills, and/or feeding and swallowing skills.
Services include prevention, identification, evaluation, treatment and rehabilitation of communication and/or feeding disorders.
Speech-language pathologists are certified by the American Speech-Language Hearing Association and licensed by the state of North Carolina.
Speech-language pathologists can help evaluate and treat children with the following difficulties:
- Speech-language delay (including impairments in receptive and expressive language, prelinguistic communication, pragmatic language and articulation/phonology)
- Severe speech-language impairment requiring augmentative and alternative communication
- Feeding Disorders
- Oral motor dysfunction and swallowing problems
- Cognitive/communicative deficits following brain injury
- Auditory processing deficits
- Dysfluency
- Voice Disorders
- Childhood apraxia of speech
For the speech-therapy evaluation, please bring:
• Any augmentative communication equipment
