What is Speech Therapy and who needs it?
Speech therapists are educated in the study of human communication, its development, and the disorders associated with it. Speech therapists also have expertise in the areas of play skills, attention and social language that maximizes your childs potential to succeed in future academic and social settings. Speech therapists evaluate a childs articulation, oral motor abilities, feeding capabilities, voice and fluency of speech and receptive, expressive and social language skills,.
Speech therapists are educated in the study of human communication, its development, and the disorders associated with it. Speech therapists also have expertise in the areas of play skills, attention and social language that maximizes your childs potential to succeed in future academic and social settings. Speech therapists evaluate a childs articulation, oral motor abilities, feeding capabilities, voice and fluency of speech and receptive, expressive and social language skills. Children who have needs in any of these areas would benefit from a formal evaluation by a speech therapist.