Speech-Language Pathology
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.
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).
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.
Procedural Skills
The procedures used in speech therapy are guided by the child’s needs based on diagnosis, age, and own factors for success. The treatment may be modified as the clinician sees fit. More treatment procedures and resources are referenced as needed though American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and other sources. Evidence based practice leads the way to know what is best for the child and how to increase and decrease the difficulty for growth and development.
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.
Resources
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Collaborative efforts to propose synopsis information was brought by the American Speech Hearing Association (ASHA) as well as the Chitter Chatter P.C. team. Please reference the links below for more information in regards to speech and language for your child. However please reach out to a Chitter Chatter P.C. member for any other comments or concerns.