TYPES OF THERAPY OFFERED Here are a few general descriptions of therapy techniques that we offer: Articulation If your child needs improvement in pronunciation, the traditional approach is recommended. This involves modeling individual sounds separately, one at a time, while demonstrating correct tongue and lip placement. The child then progresses to putting these correctly pronounced sounds together into words, phrases and sentences. Phonology If your child’s speech is unintelligible despite correct production of individual sounds, another effective traditional approach is to have the child listen to how a phrase or utterance should sound when it is spoken correctly, and then repeat it. This kind of therapy is usually fun for children under five because they are often not aware that they are listening and repeating. Language Language processing disorders respond to treatment with techniques that simultaneously increase your child’s receptive and expressive communication abilities. For example, we may use computer technology to have your child follow fun directions; or use sequence cards that have him/her retell a story with correct syntax, grammar, and morphology; or employ conversational activities that develop practical language skills in a natural, everyday kind of setting.
	Specialty Disorders such as Autism, Apraxia, and Asperger’s are approached in generally the same way with variations created according your child’s special needs. Apraxia Apraxic children generally respond best when seen individually at the beginning, with group therapy following as they become more comfortable. Visual phonics is a superb multi-sensory technique that works very well with Apraxic children. By using finger and hand motions associated with individual sounds, it employs a different part of the brain to produce fluent speech. Surprisingly, children have been able to repeat sounds on the first try. Asperger’s Strong social scripting through social skills groups is the latest and most successful technique. Identifying emotions, problem solving games, and predicting social outcomes are a few activities that are most effective in challenging this unique group of children. Autism Depending on your child, we can implement ABA, TEACH, PECS and other current forms of therapy as part of the therapeutic routine to increase your child’s attention to conversational partners, comprehension of spoken language and expressive language.