This therapy addresses:
- Tongue thrust
- Low muscle tone in the face and mouth
- Articulation Disorder
- Expressive and Receptive Language Disorder
- Feeding issues
- Swallowing issues
- Sensory sensitivity
- Apraxia
- Cognitive Language Disorder
- Stuttering / Voice
If You Think Your Child Has A Speech Problem
As your child grows his (her) speech sounds will develop. Your baby will begin to make sounds from birth. Vocalizations typically begin at 2-3 months, babbling around 6 months growing into real words from 18 months to 30 months of age. By the age of 3 your child should ‘have it all’.
A 3 year old should produce most speech sounds correctly and use speech to carry on a conversation. All sounds may not be perfect, but a 3 year old should be easily understood by most strangers.
SPEECH & LANGUAGE OF A ONE YEAR OLD
- recognizes his/her name
- understands “No”
- gives a toy on request
- places a cube in a cup on command
- understands simple instructions
- imitates familiar words
- waves “bye-bye” and plays pat-a-cake
- uses “mama” and “dada” and several other words, usually nouns
- like to make animal sounds and vehicle sounds
- laughs a great deal
- shows affection; makes noises and pats parents affectionately
- scribbles imitatively with a crayon
SPEECH & LANGUAGE OF A TWO YEAR OLD
- understands simple questions and commands
- identifies body parts
- carries on a “conversation” with self and dolls
- uses mainly names of things, actions, persons and situations in his or her language
- has around 300 words in speaking vocabulary
- names pictures
- asks “what’s this?”, “what’s that?” and “where’s my?”
- sentence length is composed of 2-3 words
- uses 2-word negative phases such as “not go”, “not right” and “no want”
- refers to self by name
- forms some plurals by adding “s”; books
- listens o stories with pictures
- stays with one activity for 6-7 minutes
SPEECH & LANGUAGE OF A THREE YEAR OLD
- can match primary colors, names at least one color
- understands “yesterday”, summer”, “lunchtime”, “tonight” and “little/big”
- understand preposition, “on/off”, “over/under”
- can tell a story or relay an idea to someone
- has a vocabulary of 3,000-5,000 words
- knows their first and last name and their birthdate
- frequently practices by talking to him (her) self
- uses words to relate observations, concepts, ideas and relationships
- consistently produces most of the phonemes correctly, 100% intelligible to strangers
- can sing songs
- can stay with one activity for 8-10 minutes
- asks “what” and “why” questions frequently