Speech Therapy

Cole Pediatric Therapy provides life-changing Speech Therapy services

Cole Pediatric Therapy’s experienced team of Speech Language Pathologists work with children of all ages and abilities. Children experiencing difficulty with communication and related disorders, from auditory and memory to voice and oral motor could benefit from speech therapy services. Disorders may range from simple sound repetitions and misarticulations to the complete inability to communicate using speech and language.

At Cole Pediatric Therapy, our therapists work with children on a variety of levels. Early intervention is key, get started today! Our speech programs include but are not limited to the following:

Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)

Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) is an umbrella term for a wide range of communication interventions and technologies that can support or replace natural speech. AAC is used by individuals who have difficulty communicating effectively through speech alone due to various medical conditions and developmental disabilities including those with autism, cerebral palsy, stroke, traumatic brain injury, and other neurological or developmental disorders.

Learn more about how our team of speech therapists are improving our patients communication skills using AAC.

Feeding & Swallowing Disorders

Children with feeding and swallowing disorders have a wide variety of symptoms which may include; accepting food, coordination of moving oral structures adequately to suck, chew, and swallow contents which are all necessary for building and maintain good nutrition. Our feeding therapy program provides solutions to these symptoms and can assist in feeding independence.

Learn more about how our team of feeding specialists help improve varied feeding and swallowing disorders.

Oral Motor Therapy

An oral aversion is when an infant or child refuses to accept food by mouth or when they are not accepting the developmentally appropriate amount, variety or type of food by mouth. If your child is experiencing difficulty moving parts of his/her mouth to speak, eat, or swallow, then they could benefit from oral motor therapy.

Learn more about how our team of speech therapists use various exercises in oral motor therapy to increase jaw, lip, and tongue strength as well as overall oral coordination.

Fluency/Stuttering Therapy

Our Speech Language Pathologists provide therapy to help children with an increased awareness of stuttering in themselves and others, learn and use relaxation techniques, and produce fluent speech via certain strategies. If your child continually inserts words/sounds (like, um, uh, hmm) in phrases, repeats sounds/words/phrases, and/or has difficulty “getting the words out,” then he/she could benefit from speech therapy.

Learn more about how our team of speech therapists are helping to improve stuttering disfluencies.

Expressive Language Therapy

Our team will focus on the following skills through Expressive Language Therapy: using words (or other communication systems such as pictures or sign language) to name or request items/actions, using word endings correctly (such as plurals, possessives, past tense), using correct grammatical structures, answering/asking yes/no and who, what, where, when, why, how questions, improving written expression, and improving pragmatic/social skills. If a child is experiencing difficulty in sharing thoughts, ideas, and feelings then he/she could benefit from expressive language therapy.

Learn more about how our team of speech therapists work with children to improve their thoughts and understanding of communication.

Receptive Language Therapy

Our team will focus on the following skills while performing Receptive Language Therapy: following routine requests such as “sit down” and “throw it away,” pointing to familiar pictures/objects when named by others, appropriately using objects/toys during play, understanding increased amount of words and sentences, as well as understanding reading passages. If a child is experiencing difficulty in understanding others, then he/she could benefit from receptive therapy.

Articulation/Phonological Processing Therapy