What is Speech Therapy?

We contract with Capernaum Pediatric Therapy for Occupational, Physical, and Speech Therapy. Children receive speech-language therapy to learn to better communicate their wants and needs and to achieve their individually-designed goals. Speech-language pathologists work on articulation skills, language development, and oral motor/feeding challenges.

The team treat children with the following diagnoses and more:

• • Accent Modification
  • Articulation Disorders
  • Auditory Processing Disorders (APD)
  • Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), Asperger’s and PDD-NOS
  • Cerebral Palsy (CP)
  • Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS)
  • Cleft Lip and Palate
  • Developmental Delays (DD)
  • Down Syndrome (DS)
  • Feeding and Swallowing Disorders
  • Fluency Disorders (Stuttering)
  • Oral Motor Disorders
  • Phonological Disorders
  • Pragmatic Disorders (Social Skills)
  • Receptive/ Expressive Language Delays
  • Voice and Resonance Disorders
  • And Many Others!

  Capernaum’s speech-language pathologists encourage the development of communication skills in a wide variety of play-based activities. Specialized treatment techniques may include, but are not limited to:

  • Augmentative and Assistive Communication (AAC)
  • Home Program Development
  • Social Skills Training
  • “S.O.S.” and other Feeding Approaches
  • Swallowing and other Oral-Motor Interventions
  • Speech and Language Therapy
  • Voice, Fluency, and Resonance Therapy