Speech Therapy
Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) work to prevent, assess, diagnose, and treat speech, language, social communication, communication-cognition deficits, and swallowing disorders in children and adults.
- Speech disorders occur when a person has difficulty producing speech sounds correctly or fluently (e.g., stuttering) or has problems with his or her voice or resonance.
- Language disorders occur when a person has trouble understanding others (receptive language), or sharing thoughts, ideas, and feelings (expressive language). Language disorders may be spoken or written and may involve the form, content, and/or use of language in functional and socially appropriate ways.
- Social communication disorders occur when an individual has trouble with the social use of verbal and nonverbal communication. These disorders may include problems with communicating for social purposes, talking in different ways to suit the listener and setting, and following rules for conversation and story-telling. All individuals with autism spectrum disorder have social communication problems; however, other individuals, who are not on the autism spectrum, can have these challenges as well.
- Swallowing disorders (dysphagia) are feeding and swallowing difficulties.
MindCentric has partnered with highly skilled speech language pathologists to provide individual speech therapy as well as social skills groups. Please contact our office to schedule a consultation to see if speech therapy is right you or your child.