Smart Speech Therapy LLC provides personalized speech and language services that are specifically customized for each client and are based on their unique needs. We offer consultation, evaluation and treatment of complex speech and language-based disorders for pediatric clients 0-21 years of age.
We specialize in providing comprehensive speech language assessment and intervention services for internationally adopted children with communication delays, feeding and swallowing difficulties, as well as psychiatric and neurological impairments.
We offer bilingual speech and language services in Russian to meet the linguistic and cultural needs of children whose parents would like them to receive services in their native language.
We also offer comprehensive assessment and intervention of children identified or presenting with features of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Disorder (FASD).
Evidence based practice and latest research based assessments are used to evaluate each child and determine his/her strengths and weaknesses. Family concerns are addressed during the course of assessment and therapy. Caregivers are also educated about the techniques that are utilized during sessions. Carryover activities and ideas are provided to use with the child on daily basis in order to reinforce the work done in therapy.
Pediatric diagnoses that require speech language therapy remediation that are treated in this practice:
•Articulation Disorders (Developmental) and Phonological Disorders (e.g. severely disordered speech)
•Motor Speech Disorders such as Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS), Acquired Apraxia of Speech (AOS) (secondary to traumatic injury, stroke or illness), Dysarthria (may be secondary to other diagnoses e.g. Cerebral Palsy
•Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) including Asperger's, PDD-NOS, Rett Syndrome, Childhood Disintegrative Disorder etc
•ADHD- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
•APD - Auditory Processing Disorders
•Genetic Syndromes (e.g., Down syndrome, Williams syndrome, Turner syndrome, Angelman's Syndrome, etc.)
•Neurological disorders (e.g., Cerebral Palsy, traumatic brain injury, stroke); unspecified neurological dysfunction; seizure disorders
•Receptive and expressive language disorders/delays, and specific language impairment (SLI)
•Fluency/stuttering
•Craniofacial abnormalities
•Semantic and/or Pragmatic Language Disorders
•Hearing Impairments and/or multi-sensory impairments
•Cognitive Impairments/Mental Retardation
•Voice disorders
•Feeding and/or swallowing; myofunctional/tongue thrust patterns
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