Our Services
At Neighborhood Pediatric Therapy we offer a wide variety of services to support your child's individual needs. We offer free developmental screenings to survey your child's speech-language development. From there, we can determine if a full evaluation is warranted and if your child would benefit from individualized therapy.
Language Delays and Disorders
Expressive Language refers to a child's ability to communicate his/her thoughts and feelings clearly through words, gestures, signs and/or symbols to engage in successful interactions.
Receptive Language refers to how a child understands and processes information. Examples of delays in receptive language includes difficulty following directions, comprehending information presented, or answering questions.
Gestalt Language Processors refers to communication through immediate or delayed echolalia or scripting. This language style requires a different approach to therapy rather than the traditional approach. Mackenzie & Kelsey are both certified NLA clinicians and can best help Gestalt Language Processors build their language skills.
Executive Functioning refers to the ability to initiate a task, focus, impulse control, have time management, working memory, organization, task completion and self-regulation.
Auditory Processing Disorder is a disorder of the auditory (hearing) system that causes disruption in the way an individual's brain understands what they are hearing.
Speech Delays & Disorders
Articulation refers to your child's ability to produce certain sounds.
Phonology refers to patterns of sound errors which persist past age expectancy.
Childhood Apraxia of Speech refers to the difficulty with planning and programming movement for speech. Our brains plan and program the movements needed for speech. Childhood Apraxia of Speech is when there is a disconnect between the planning and the movement.
Fluency Disorders refers to an interruption in the flow of speaking characterized by atypical rate, rhythm, and disfluencies, which may also be accompanied by excessive tension, speaking avoidance, struggle behaviors, and secondary mannerisms.
Feeding Difficulties and Oral Motor Deficits
Feeding Difficulties include difficulties with sucking, eating, chewing, or swallowing.
Orofacial Myofunctional Disorders are patterns involving oral and oral musculature that interfere with normal growth, development, or function of orofacial structures. This can co-occur with a variety of speech and feeding difficulties.
Augmentative & Assistive Communication (AAC) refers to all the ways someone can communicate besides talking. This type of communication can help supplement or compensate for impaired speech and language.
Literacy & Phonological Awareness
Phonological Awareness refers to the underlying skills children need to learn to read and write. This includes understanding sound-letter representations, rhyming, breaking down sounds and syllables or adding sounds to words, etc.
Literacy refers to your child's ability to read and write.
Social Communication refers to skills including self advocacy, interoception, perspective taking, and understanding figurative language.