Speech Therapy:
PEDIATRICS:
Our pediatric speech-language program helps your child develop the skills needed for successful communication and feeding. These skills can affect all aspects of daily life, from communicating basic needs to developing social skills and friendships to progress in school. Our certified speech-language pathologists have bachelor’s or master's degrees and extensive training in childhood speech, feeding and language problems.
Our goal is to enhance the patient’s quality of life through the development or improvement of effective and functional communication skills, increase independence with life skills tasks, and identify/develop an individualized program for swallowing disorder to ensure safe eating with the most appropriate diet.
- Articulation (making speech sounds)
- Expressive language (using words and sentences to express thoughts)
- Language comprehension (understanding concepts, following directions)
- Fluency (Stuttering or Cluttering)
- Voice Feeding, chewing and swallowing disorders
- Reading and phonics
- Language difficulties caused by central auditory processing
- Autism spectrum disorders
- Hearing loss
- Dysarthria
- Apraxia
- Voice disorders secondary to organic and non-organic etiology
- Fluency Disorders (Stuttering or Cluttering)
- Swallowing difficulties resulting from, but not limited to:
- Traumatic brain injury
- Cerebral palsy
- Tracheostomy
- General oral/pharyngeal dysfunction
- Cognitive Linguistic:
- Immediate and delayed recall-memory
- Attention/concentration
- Judgment/reasoning difficulties
- Thought organization
- Safety awareness
Please feel free to contact ETS for any concerns or further questions
Children benefit the most from communication and feeding therapy when these problems are identified early. If you have any questions about your child's speech or feeding skills or if you think your child has difficulties understanding language, ask your child's doctor for a referral to ETS.