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                                                  Speech Therapy tells about motor issues including the oral structures (teeth, palate, nasal depression, breathing system, lips, tongue), where the child can't produce sounds due to insufficient functions of articulations. Life becomes joyful, meaningful and purposeful only when we speak and communicate our needs and wishes. If there is a hindrance in the speech and language developmental area / Communication area then we should go the Speech and Language Pathologist (SLP) (i.e.,) Speech Therapist.

                                                       SLP , is a health professional with a degree holding BASLP / MASLP, who work and support children and adult speech and language difficulties, eating, drinking, swallowing and communication. Our Speech and Language Therapist, assess and treat children and adult of any age group and help them to communicate better. They assess and develop personalized plan and intervention methods, to support children and people with difficulties. Speech and Language Therapy aids children who need a means of effectively communicating in their natural environment.

                                                 Activities in Speech Therapy includes making arts and crafts, participating in symbolic play, completing speech drills, Understanding and identifying labeling, discriminating and using objects/pictures, reading, writing, or playing games. Our Speech Therapy Activities are fun and motivating so that the child is able to take what they learn and utilize it outside of the therapeutic setting. Each child is treated as an individual with the goal of obtaining functional communication skills in all aspects.

Initially, an extensive speech and language evaluation will be completed which focuses on five areas of communications: Voice, Articulation, Fluency, Oral Motor and Language skills. A language sample is also obtained to analyze the ability of the child to communicate in a natural setting (i.e. during play, conversation, etc.,).

                                              During the entire evaluation, the child's pragmatic skills are also closely observed to determine the appropriate use of eye contact, topic maintenance, turn taking, initiation of topics and symbolic play. The evaluation report provides extensive information regarding a child's strengths and weaknesses in all areas of communication. Speech Therapy will focus on research based strategies for intervention and remediation of specific communication disorders. Periodical follow up is performed to monitor retention and stability of this newly acquired behaviors.

                                                                   Intervention programs are designed based on the clients verbal abilities, non verbal cognitive abilities, clients specific deficits and individual learning style. Our Speech Therapy Exercises follow with an assessment, programming, behavior modification , key teaching strategies, session design, data collection analysis and compliance. Speech is different from language. A speech issue is regularly identified as an issue with sounds. A language issue needs to do with an individual to form, use and produce with content in a message.