We are so Thrilled about SLP Services at Sara’s Garden
We are beyond thrilled that Sara’s Garden has added SLP services! We have had to drive for hours in the past in order to receive these services because nothing was available in our area. [...]
PATHWAYS TO CLEAR COMMUNICATION
Speech-Language Pathology (or Speech Therapy) works to prevent, assess, diagnose, and treat speech, language, social communication, cognitive-communication, and swallowing disorders in children and adults of all ages.
Many conditions, including cerebral palsy, autism, hearing loss, developmental delays, may cause difficulty with speech and language development. Some children may not understand language. Some children may understand language but be unable to communicate effectively due to difficulty with speech. Sometimes children experience challenges in other areas of communication, such as hand gestures and facial expressions.
We believe that early intervention is crucial to the development of communication skills and that every client should be viewed individually and treated uniquely according to their learning style and communication needs.
Family support is crucial to a child’s learning and parents should be involved in the development, implementation, and evaluation of their child’s needs and progress. Our goal is to collaborate with families to better serve the needs of you and/or your child. At Sara’s Garden, we offer an individualized approach to assessing a client’s functional capacity and customizing interventions to achieve family-centered goals. This is achieved through supporting a person to learn new skills, modifying a task or activity and/or making changes to one’s environment, to enhance their level of functioning and safety and achieve even greater independence.
Speech Therapy is a clinical program aimed at improving speech and language skills and oral motor abilities that will allow your child to communicate more effectively. Benefits of Speech Therapy can include:
The ability to express one’s self is paramount. Speech Therapy may help your child achieve a greater ability to use and understand language, to communicate with others and to express himself or herself to the greatest extent possible.
Speech Therapy combines diagnostic skills and teaching skills. A speech therapist has been trained to recognize the many causes of speech impediment, including physical, developmental, neurological, and social. They are also trained to determine the most productive methods of treatment. These can range from work with technological visualizing tools to basic practice techniques used to promote clear speech.
Speech Therapy techniques are usually used to treat a variety of problems that include articulation difficulties, fluency problems, and resonance issues. The therapies are classified into three main categories: articulation, language intervention, and oral motor. A combination of techniques from any or all of the categories may be used in a specific situation, depending on the needs and speech difficulties of the child.
Some Speech Therapy techniques may work best with one disorder, while others may work best for another disorder. Determining which techniques will work best for each situation is important, because each child has individual needs and problems so the techniques used should be customized to fit these specialized requirements.
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