Speech

What is Speech Therapy?

Speech-language therapy addresses challenges with language and communication. The overall goal is to help kids communicate in more effective ways.

Communication and speech challenges vary from child to child. A speech therapist begins with an evaluation creates individual goals for therapy.

Examples of the skills that speech therapy may work on include:

• Strengthening the muscles in the mouth, jaw and neck
• Making clearer speech sounds
• Matching emotions with the correct facial expression
• Understanding body language
• Responding to questions
• Matching a picture with its meaning
• Using a speech app on an iPad to produce the correct word
• Modulating tone of voice