Speech

The Benefits of Speech Therapy

• Speech therapy can help children learn to speak more clearly. This helps them feel more confident and less frustrated about speaking to others. Children who have language issues can benefit socially, emotionally and academically from speech therapy.
• For children with reading issues such as dyslexia, speech therapy can help them hear and distinguish specific sounds in words and build, strengthen, and develop the skills necessary to become a more fluent and competent reader.  This can improve reading comprehension skills and encourage children to read.
• Speech therapy is especially beneficial when children begin early in life. In one study, 90 percent of preschool children with language issues who went through speech therapy showed improvement in language skills.

CSHC specializes in treating:

• Articulation problems: Not speaking clearly and making errors in sounds.
• Fluency problems: Trouble with the flow of speech, such as stuttering.
• Resonance or voice problems: Trouble with voice pitch, volume and quality.
• Oral feeding problems: Difficulty with eating, swallowing and drooling.

Specialized approaches to treament include:

• Beckman Oral Motor
• Compton Accent Reduction
• For Dysphagia: Electrical stimulation
• Interactive Metronome Therapy
• Lee Silverman Voice Therapy
• Melodic Intonation Therapy
• Orton Gillingham Reading Therapy
• Linda Mood-Bell Reading Therapy
• Use of Speech Easy device to improve fluency
• Vocal Cord Dysfunction Breathing Program