Evidence based practice and latest research based assessments are used to evaluate each child and determine his/her strengths and weaknesses.  Family concerns are addressed during the course of assessment and therapy.  Caregivers are also educated about the techniques that are utilized during sessions. Carryover activities and ideas are provided to use with the child on daily basis in order to reinforce the work done in therapy.

Pediatric diagnoses that require speech language therapy remediation that are treated in this practice:

• Articulation Disorders (Developmental) and Phonological Disorders (e.g. severely disordered speech)

• Motor Speech Disorders such as Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS), Acquired Apraxia of Speech  (AOS) (secondary to traumatic injury, stroke or illness), Dysarthria (may be secondary to other diagnoses e.g. Cerebral Palsy

• Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) including Asperger's, PDD-NOS, Rett Syndrome, Childhood Disintegrative Disorder etc

• ADHD- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

• APD - Auditory Processing Disorders

• Genetic Syndromes (e.g., Down syndrome, Williams syndrome, Turner syndrome, Angelman's Syndrome, etc.)

• Neurological disorders (e.g., Cerebral Palsy, traumatic brain injury, stroke); unspecified neurological dysfunction; seizure disorders

• Receptive and expressive language disorders/delays, and specific language impairment (SLI)

• Fluency/stuttering

• Craniofacial abnormalities

• Semantic and/or Pragmatic Language Disorders

• Hearing Impairments and/or multi-sensory impairments

• Cognitive Impairments/Mental Retardation

• Voice disorders

• Feeding and/or swallowing; myofunctional/tongue thrust patterns