Group and Individual Therapy
Speech and language disorders are likely to have a significant effect on a child’s social and academic development. Early identification and treatment of these disorders allows can help children with reading, writing, and social skills. Providence Speech and Hearing Center provides individual and group therapy sessions for preschoolers, school-aged children and young adolescents. Prior to any treatment, we initiate a comprehensive evaluation to determine the appropriate intervention plan for each patient.
Cranial Facial Clinic in partnership with CHOC Children's
Children with a cleft palate likely suffer from voice, nasal, resonance, articulation, swallowing and language delay problems. As a member of the CHOC cleft palate and craniofacial team, our expert Speech-Language Pathologists work with medical teams to asses and monitor each child’s development. Through regular contact at the Cranial-Facial Clinic our patients receive the necessary treatment to improve their overall speech intelligibility.
Stuttering and Fluency
Stuttering is characterized by interruptions in speech patterns such as an atypical rate and repetitions of sounds, syllables and words. Stuttering usually develops during childhood and can last throughout adult life often accompanied by excessive tension and anxiety. Our treatment for stuttering focuses on facilitating fluent speech as well as managing stress and anxiety related to the condition.
Aural Rehabilitation
Hearing loss in infancy or early childhood can affect all aspects of speech and language development. Early signs may include abnormal phonation and articulation and delayed acquisition of language. These affects can be perpetuated by late or inadequate identification and treatment of hearing loss. Our therapy treatment includes training auditory perception, improving speech and developing language and family support.
Social Skills Program for Pragmatic Language Disorders
Children with pragmatic difficulties often show problems using language in ways appropriate for their age. Pragmatic language disorders are characterized by excessive interruption and other socially inappropriate speech behavior, including a lack of eye contact or inability to engage in normal conversational exchange. Group therapy focuses on developing appropriate communicative behavior including making introductions, asking questions, sharing ideas, expressing needs and wants, accepting suggestions, identifying emotions, monitoring body language and personal space and listening appropriately
Voice Clinic
Voice disorders and misuse are common in children. Children often use shouting, screaming, yelling and excessive talking to get the attention of others, leading to serious vocal abuse problems. This can lead to inflammation of the vocal folds, chronic laryngitis, vocal nodules, vocal polyps and contact ulcers. These conditions are normally reversible with the elimination of the cause behaviors along with a program of voice therapy and good vocal hygiene.
Jumpstart for communication delay
The Jumpstart class is a small group therapy program for children 18-36 months of age who exhibit developmental delays or communication problems. Jumpstart classes last 2 hours, 3 times per week.
