Screenings:
Screening for concerns in pediatric, adult and geriatric populations are always FREE and available by appointment. Call (208) 993-9570 today to schedule your appointment.
Articulation delays/disorders:
Articulation disorder: A speech disorder involving difficulties in articulating specific types of sounds. There are a variety of factors that can lead to a delay in learning sounds or a disorder of producing appropriate sounds. We can help identify and remediate these errors to increase ease of communication.
Expressive Language:
Expressive language is a broad term that describes how a person communicates their wants and needs. This can include the use of facial expressions, gestures/signs, written language, spoken vocabulary, semantics (word/sentence meaning), morphology, and syntax (grammar rules).
Receptive Language:
Receptive language is the ability to understand information. It involves hearing and understanding the words, sentences and meaning of what others say or what is read.
Dysphagia:
Dysphagia is any difficulty related to feeding and swallowing of solid/liquid consistencies. It can occur as a result of various medical conditions and can involve one or several areas of the swallowing tract, from initiating the task of eating to signs and symptoms of disorder after the swallow is complete. Dysphagia can occur in children as well as adults.
Cognition:
Speech-Language Pathologists assist with a variety of cognitive delays and disorders in adult and pediatric populations, including memory deficits, attention disorders, difficulty with problem solving and executive functioning (a set of mental processes that helps us get things done, allowing us to plan, organize and to link our past experiences to the present).
Voice and resonance disturbances:
Voice and resonance disturbances can be caused by difficulty with respiration control, vocal pitch, loudness, use and abuse of the vocal tract, vocal hygiene to prevent further voice disturbances, alaryngeal voice (typically related to loss of vocal tract after surgery), hyper/hypo-nasality. Speech-Language Pathologists can also assist with professional voice use, business communication, transgender voice and accent/dialect modification.
Pragmatics:
Pragmatics refers to the social language skills we use in our daily interactions with others. They include what we say, how we say it, our body language and whether it is appropriate to the given situation. Pragmatic skills are vital for communicating our personal thoughts, ideas and feelings.
Augmentative/Alternative Communication:
AAC includes all of the ways we share our ideas and feelings without talking. These include gestures, body language, facial expressions, and sign language (unaided communication) or use some sort of tool or device (aided communication). There are two types of aided systems—basic and high-tech. A pen and paper is a basic aided system. Pointing to letters, words, or pictures on a board is a basic aided system. Touching letters or pictures on a computer screen or speech generating device that speaks for you is considered a high-tech aided system.
Fluency:
Fluency is the smoothness or flow with which sounds, syllables, words and phrases are joined together when speaking quickly. A disorder of fluency might include stuttering or cluttering of sounds/words. Please click on the link to learn more about fluency disorders.
In addition to speech therapy services, we also work closely with Human Dynamics. For a list of their services, please click here.
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