In Chitter Chatter, our Speech-Language Pathologist specializes in helping children expand their communication in regard to articulation, fluency/stuttering, voice, and language and feeding.  Our speech-language pathologists help facilitate their growth with individualized goals with the collaboration of the client and the client’s family.  Our overall goal is to help our children express their daily wants and needs using tools and strategies to be successful.  

Chitter Chatter provides evaluations, assessments, diagnoses, and treatment benefits that can address speech and language skills. Our therapy services may be used to target a child’s area of need such as phonology, articulation, fluency/stuttering, voice, language and feeding such as receptive, expressive, pragmatic, and other communication difficulty that are unique to a child’s special needs. 

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Our clinic also provides services to children who have been diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders as well as early intervention programs. In regard to children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, we help improve their verbal, nonverbal, and social communication skills. Our first intervention program helps expand speech and language abilities in the earlier stages (18 months-3 years).  

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Our clinic provides evidence-based practice programs, procedures, and treatment protocols to address the child’s goals with communication. The speech-language pathologist references the American Speech-Language Hearing Association as well as the Michigan Speech Language Hearing Association.  

Language

Enhanced milieu approach - Creating an environment to support language development Child directed play - Child lead therapy where the clinician follows the lead of the child Dialogic Reading - Book based therapy for how to present questions and build on answers Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) - using technology (gestures, cues, low tech, and high technology) to communicate by supplementing verbal expression as well as for non-vocal communication. 

Articulation

Cycles - Repetition of auditory bombardment Minimal Pairs and Maximal Opposition - Identification of phoneme features Melodic Intonation Approach - addressing intelligibility with multimodal cues Rapid Syllable Transition Treatment (ReST) - Procedure to increase intelligibility  transitions between sounds and syllables and to improve prosody

Fluency

Desentization Therapy - address the emotional components of stuttering 

Fluency Shaping & Modification Therapy - address the mechanics, tension, movement, and flow of speech.