International Adoptions & Speech Language Services
Smart Speech Therapy LLC specializes in providing comprehensive speech language assessment and intervention services for internationally adopted children with communication delays, feeding and swallowing difficulties, as well as psychiatric and neurological impairments.
Internationally adopted children are at high risk for developmental delay because of their exposure to institutional environments. Children in institutional care often experience neglect, lack of language stimulation, lack of appropriate play experiences, lack of enriched community activities, as well as inadequate learning settings all of which has long lasting negative impact on their language development (especially if the child is over 3 years of age).
We offer assessments in the child’s native language immediately post-adoption which help to determine the extent of the delay/impairment. Such immediate assessments are important because they help to establish a baseline of child’s linguistic functioning.
Additionally, we offer comprehensive assessment and intervention services to children who have been adopted for a number of years but are still presenting with speech and language deficits. These deficits negatively impact their functioning in social and academic settings and therefore require remediation.
- Comprehensive Specialty Assessments:
- Autistic Spectrum Disorders Functional Communication Assessment
- Motor Speech Disorder Assessments (e.g., Dysarthria, Apraxia, etc)
- Auditory/Language Processing and Listening Comprehension Assessment
- Vocabulary, Word Retrieval, Discourse and Narrative Assessment
- Problem Solving, Critical Thinking and Executive Function Assessment
- Pragmatic Communication and Social Language Assessment
