LANGUAGE THERAPY

Getting the Word Out: Let's Talk About Therapy!

Individual Language Therapy Sessions begin at once weekly and can be scheduled on a more frequent basis if necessary. Therapy addresses receptive and expressive language. Children can be described as having language disorders if they have a significant deficit in learning to talk, understand, or use any aspect of language appropriately. Victoria will collaborate with families and other professionals to develop the best possible treatment plan for your child to make incremental steps toward improving their skills. Each child's therapy plan is customized to meet their individual needs.

Language Therapy can address:

• prelinguistic communication (e.g., joint attention, intentionality, communicative signaling, babbling, first words)
• syntax (word order)
• semantics (word meanings)
• pragmatics (language use, social aspects of communication)
• literacy (reading, writing, spelling)
  
• Expressive Language Disorder: difficulty with verbal expression. The child may demonstrate word retrieval difficulties, have limited vocabulary usage or present with difficulty producing longer sentences or phrases. They may also experience difficulty using proper syntax, semantics, or morphology.
  
• Receptive Language Disorder: difficulty in attending to, processing, comprehending, remembering, or integrating spoken language. For example, he/she may have difficulty following directions, answering questions, or recalling details.
  
• Deficits in Executive Functioning: difficulty with the regulation of feelings and behaviors necessary to select and guide actions in the context of rules and goals. Attention, impulse control, organization, planning, and hierarchical thinking issues are often present in a child who has executive function impairments.