Receptive & Expressive language delays

 Children all learn language the same way, but not always at the same time. Speech pathologists can help your child:

• Auditory Processing – understand what is heard through repetition & rehearsal

• Build Vocabulary - learn new words through role playing & storytelling

• Alternative/Augmentative Communication – provide communication options until language is built

Social emotional pragmatic impairments

As children learn about the world around them through observation and imitation, sometimes social interaction skills lag behind.  Speech pathologists can help your child:

• Improve eye contact during turn-taking conversations

• Initiate interactions with others

• Attain & Maintain attention

• Interpret Non-Verbal cues

Articulation disorders

Speech pathologists help identify individual sounds and sound combinations in error. Specialized speech treatment will include:

• Evaluation of the physical structure of their mouth and muscles, ie lips, tongue, cheeks, hard/soft palate

• Provide correct placement of tongue, lips, and teeth in positions to produce an accurate sound

• Recognition of how the new sound feels and is heard during speech

• Celebration & reinforcement of new sound production until the new sound is a habit

Cleft lip & palate intervention

Surgical intervention and behavior intervention are the primary treatment components. SLPs play an important role in speech and feeding skills following reconstruction including:

• Facilitating sucking, swallowing, chewing skills for safe eating & drinking

• Teaching correct sound productions

• Decreasing hypo/hyper nasal emissions

Voice disorders: stuttering/cluttering and vocal fold dysfunction

A child’s pitch, loudness, and overall vocal quality tend to affect their relationships with their peers, and unfortunately, can lead to negative attention and limited participation in activities.  

Speech pathologist, Victoria Pavelko, has over a decade experience as a fluency specialist treating stuttering/cluttering disorders across the lifespan:

• Treatment approaches include:

• Lidcombe Parent Training Program

• Temple Child Therapy

• Shine’s Systematic Fluency Training

• Martin, Kuhl & Haroldson’s time-out with a Puppet

• Gregory’s modeling slow easy speech

• Cooper’s Control Therapy Program

Autism intervention

We want to find the BEST way to help your child communicate in more useful, functional ways.  We believe in Family – Centered Approach – reducing family stress through collaboration of family’s interests & cultural values. Treatment approaches to include:

• Non-verbal gestural communication with simple sign language (ASL)

• Communication Boards/iPad applications

• Receptive language skill builders

• Attention/Listening/Imitation play

Feeding disorders

Up to 45% of typical developing children develop a chewing, sucking, or swallowing disorder.  We are here to help your child develop healthy, safe eating & drinking skills by:

• Providing a relaxing, stress-free feeding environment

• Initiate food play to begin to accept different food textures into hands

• Improve low tone in facial muscles

• Increase strength in tongue, lips, and cheeks with fun exercises

• Decrease sensory aversions by focusing on combining favorite foods with new ones

• Assist with transition from bottle/breastfeeding to food and drink