Services for Children

The Speech Plus Therapy Services works with a range of speech and language disorders that are listed below. Children as young as 18 months can start speech therapy for the different disorders below 

Early Language Development. A child 12 months and above has not achieved all the language development milestones that they should be achieved according to their age. 

Articulation disorders. An articulation disorder is an inability to form certain word sounds properly. A child with this speech disorder may delete, swap, distort, or add word sounds eg: car to tar 

Fluency disorders. A fluency disorder affects the flow, speed, and rhythm of speech. Stuttering and cluttering are fluency disorders. A person who stutters has trouble getting out a sound and may have blocked or interrupted speech, or may repeat part of a word. A person with cluttering often speaks very fast and merges words together.

Resonance disorders. A resonance disorder occurs when a blockage or obstruction of regular airflow in the nasal or oral cavities alters the vibrations responsible for voice quality. It can also happen if the velopharyngeal valve doesn’t close properly. Resonance disorders are often associated with cleft palate and neurological disorders

Receptive Language disorders. Children with receptive language disorder have trouble understanding and processing what others say. This seems that the child is having difficulty following instructions and directions. Other language disorders, autism, hearing loss, and a head injury can lead to a receptive language disorder.

Expressive language disorders. Expressive language disorder is difficulty is expressing oneself.  A child with expressive language might have trouble with sentence structure, such as words not in their correct order, missing components in their sentence, and incorrect grammar use.