Speech Therapy
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What is Speech Therapy?
Did you know that Speech Therapy involves so much more than just helping your child learn how to talk? Allied Pediatric Therapy’s Speech Language Pathologists utilize evidence-based practices to evaluate and address your child’s language, articulation, oral-motor function, literacy levels, auditory skills, and cognition/executive functioning. We believe in addressing the whole child and take into consideration all aspects of communication.
What Do Speech Therapists Do?
Speech-Language Pathologists work with a wide variety of disorders that involve speech, language, reading, writing, comprehension, cognition, memory, attention, voice, swallowing, feeding, and other behaviors. Speech Therapy sessions might include activities to help your child communicate with the use of signs or pictures, improve your child’s planning and problem solving skills, engage in pretend play as a prerequisite for language development, or practice safe feeding techniques.

Would My Child Benefit From Speech Therapy?
Your child’s doctor may recommend speech therapy for your child due to a variety of reasons related to speech, language, and oral-motor skills. Speech Therapy may be needed anytime a child has difficulty communicating, understanding and/or expressing needs and thoughts or feeding/swallowing.
What is a Speech Disorder?
A speech disorder refers to a problem with producing words correctly or fluently. Speech disorders include the following:
- Articulation/Phonological Process disorders – difficulties producing sounds in syllables or saying words incorrectly to the point that other people can’t understand what is being said.
- Fluency disorders – problems such as stuttering, the condition in which the flow of speech is interrupted by abnormal stoppages, repetitions (st-st-stuttering), or prolonging sounds and syllables (ssssstuttering).
- Resonance or voice disorders – problems with the pitch, volume, or quality of the voice that distract listeners from what’s being said. These types of disorders may also cause pain or discomfort for the child when speaking.
What is a Language Disorder?
A language disorder refers to difficulty understanding or combining words together to express ideas. Language disorders can be receptive (difficulty understanding or processing language) or expressive (difficulty putting words together, a limited vocabulary, or inability to use language in a socially appropriate way). Additional diagnoses like ADHD, autism, cleft lip or palate, neurological injuries, and developmental disabilities may also result in language disorders.
What is an Oral-Motor Disorder?
An oral-motor disorder refers to difficulty controlling the lips, tongue, and jaw muscles, which makes mouth skills — from talking to eating to sipping from a straw — difficult to master. Developmental delay, genetic disorders, and neurological disorders may result in oral-motor dysfunction.

Why Choose Allied Pediatric Therapy for Your Child’s Speech Therapy Program?
Our experienced staff of Speech Language Pathologists utilize evidence-based interventions to engage your child while focusing on functional language outcomes. In addition to therapy interventions focused on more general speech and language issues, we provide specialized treatments for stuttering and feeding difficulties as well as evaluations for Augmentative and Alternative Communication Devices. Our services can take place at our clinics or your child’s home, school, or daycare in order to maximize transfer of learning new communication skills into daily routines.
Allied Pediatric Speech Therapy Specialties
- Augmentative and Alternative Communication Device and Speech Generating Device evaluation and training
- PECS evaluation and training
- Stuttering evaluations and treatment
- Bilingual intervention (Spanish) available
- Specialized oral motor and feeding interventions, including Beckman Oral Motor