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Indoor voices. Outdoor voices. Silly voices. Kids use all kinds of voices. We’re here to help guide them towards finding their voices so they can tell the world who they are.

Speech therapy services help children:

Produce age appropriate speech sounds
Have a conversation with friends and family
Understand spoken and written language
Produce complete sentences
Ask and answer questions
Improve vocabulary skills
Improve ability to listen and follow directions
Learn strategies to make their speech more fluent
Learn to communicate using alternative communication (sign language/AAC devices)

You may want to seek out an evaluation if your child struggles with the following:

Using gestures like waving or pointing
Using 50 words by 18 months of age
Understanding object names/vocabulary
Following directions
Speaking in complete sentences
Asking or answer questions
Vocabulary
Stuttering (repeating sounds within words)
Sharing stories
Sharing feelings
Conversation
Being understood by others
Your child should produce the following speech sounds roughly by these ages:
- 2-3 years- p, b, m, d, b, t, k, g, w, ng, f, y
- 4 years- l, j, ch, s ,v, sh, z
- 5 years- r, zh
- 6 years- th

“It’s thrilling to help kids communicate. Seeing their faces when they are able to understand or express something new is priceless.”
-Crystal, Speech-Language Pathologist

Our Speech Therapists work with children who have:

Apraxia
Articulation disorder
Phonological disorder
Delays in development
Auditory processing disorders
Down Syndrome and other congenital syndromes
Autism spectrum disorder
Stuttering/fluency
Voice (vocal cord nodules)
Hearing loss
Cleft lip/cleft palate
Cerebral palsy
Swallowing
Feeding
Oral muscle weakness
Orofacial myofunctional disorders
Tongue thrust swallowing
Abnormal oral rest postures
Thumb/Digit sucking

“I love being a speech-language pathologist because giving the gift of communication is the greatest thing in the world!”
-Sue