Our Treatments
Communication challenges can feel overwhelming, but you don't have to navigate them alone. We specialize in treating various speech, language, and cognitive conditions with compassion and expertise. Explore the conditions below to learn how we can support your journey.
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Aphasia is a language disorder that results from damage to specific parts of the brain. Aphasia causes difficulties with any, or all of the following: expressive language (speaking), receptive language (understanding), reading, and writing.
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Apraxia: Apraxia is a motor speech disorder that impairs the brain's ability to plan the movements of the lips, jaw, and tongue needed for speech production.
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Articulation & Phonological Disorders/Apraxia: Articulation and Phonological Disorders affect the production of speech sounds, rendering reduced intelligibility of speech.
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Assistive Technology helps individuals communicate more effectively when speech is limited or developing. Tools range from low-tech options like picture boards and communication books to high-tech solutions such as speech-generating devices and apps on tablets. These technologies— referred to as Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)—can support or replace spoken language, depending on the person’s needs
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Fluency Disorders: Fluency disorders (often referred to as "stuttering") involve an interruption in the flow of speaking that may affect the rate and rhythm of speech production due to repetitions, prolongations, blocks, interjections, and revisions.
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Receptive Language Disorders: Receptive language disorders are conditions that impact a child's ability to understand age-appropriate vocabulary, follow age-appropriate commands, and comprehend age-appropriate questions.
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Social Language Disorders: Social Language Disorders may include difficulties with social interaction, social cognition, and pragmatics that may occur due to autism spectrum disorder, specific language impairment, learning disabilities, intellectual disabilities, and/or traumatic brain injury.
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Damage from a TBI can affect speech clarity, language comprehension, memory, attention, and social interaction. Speech therapy plays a role in recovery after a traumatic brain injury (TBI).
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Dysarthria: Dysarthria is a motor speech disorder. The musculature of the mouth, face, and respiratory system may become weak due to a variety of medically-related causes. The type and severity of dysarthria depend upon the etiology of the disorder (i,e. stroke, Parkinson's, ALS, etc).
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Dysphagia: Dysphagia is a disorder that indicates difficulty swallowing in the oral, pharyngeal and/or esophageal phase of the swallow that may result from Parkinson's disease, stroke, brain injury, oral/laryngeal cancer, and other medical conditions.
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Expressive Language Disorders: Expressive Language Disorders are conditions that impact a child's ability to utilize age-appropriate vocabulary/produce age-appropriate utterances to express needs, feelings, describe items, etc.
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Executive function refers to the brain’s ability to plan, organize, remember, and manage tasks—skills that are essential for effective communication. Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) often support clients with challenges in attention, working memory, self-monitoring, and flexible thinking, especially when these impact language use, social interaction, or academic performance.