Speech Therapy
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Therapy Trails is excited to provide speech therapy for a number of disorders:
Children with these difficulties may have to work extra hard to get sounds and words out correctly. They have difficulty coordinating the muscles in the mouth when trying to speak.
Some sounds are learned earlier (P, B, M), while others take longer to develop (R, CH, TH). If a child does not begin to say these sounds by the expected ages, they may have a speech sound disorder. Phonological disorders may occur when a child simplifies speech using patterns of sound errors.
Children with APD may have difficulty listening and comprehending spoken language. It is hard for them to make sense of what is being said. Some deficits include reading, spelling, following directions, tuning out background noise, remembering details in stories, and recalling words and numbers in a list.
Children are diagnosed with this disorder when they have social, communication, and behavioral difficulties. Repetitive behaviors, restricted interests, and difficulty with change are also some characteristics. Every child with autism is very different and shows deficits in different ways. Children may have mild, moderate, or even severe problems associated with the disorder.
These disorders affect a child’s attention, memory, problem solving, organization, and other skills related to “thinking.” As a result, children with these deficits have difficulty communicating with others.
These disorders occur when a child has difficulty eating and swallowing, such as sucking, biting, or chewing. Some children may have feeding disorders in the form of significant refusals to certain foods or textures.
This includes children who repeat, stop, or struggle to get words out when speaking. When a child has this condition, the “flow of speech” is affected and appears broken.
This includes difficulty understanding spoken and written language (receptively), such as following directions, understanding new words, and answering questions. It also includes those children who have difficulty communicating (expressively), such as saying words, using sentences, or retelling a story.
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