Speech-Language Therapy

Focusing on improving speech, language and communication skills, our licensed speech-language pathologists evaluate and treat a wide range of communication disorders.

Depending on your child's individual needs, services may address the following: pre-verbal communication, social interaction, understanding and using language, articulation/phonology, phonemic awareness, motor speech production, augmentative/alternative communication, fluency and voice.

Our speech-language pathologists also address oral-motor and feeding development.  Services are typically provided in individual sessions, however group experiences also are currently offered in the areas of social skills and feeding.

Recognizing Speech Problems in Children

A referral for speech and language observation may be warranted if a child exhibits one or more of the following:

• Does not imitate vocalizations or actions
• Has limited non-verbal communication
• Displays a limited variety of communication intents
• Has a limited frequency and variety of sounds or sound combinations in repertoire
• Becomes easily frustrated when speech is not understood
• Exhibits visual groping and/or tension when attempting to imitate sounds/words
• Stutters over words for more than a few weeks, begins to repeat or prolong parts of words and shows signs of awareness or tension
• Doesn't follow direction, even when there are contextual cues
• Is not attempting to put words together in short phrases and sentences after the age of two

Payment/Funding
All major insurance, Medical Assistance/TEFRA, PMAPs and private pay.

Learn More
To learn more, please contact our Central Office of Resources and Enrollment (CORE) at 952-548-8700 or coreinfo@stdavidscenter.org.