Speech and Language Therapy
Trusted Speech
and Myofunctional Therapy
in Montgomery County MD
SPEECH THERAPY SERVICES IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MD
Comprehensive Speech and Language Services for Children and Families
Speech Therapy
The ability to produce various speech sounds is vital for verbal expression. Difficulties with speech can strongly affect the ability to be understood, creating frustration and low self-esteem, no matter what age!
We help build speech sound and speech intelligibility skills that are due to an array of deficits, including:
- ✓articulation disorders
- ✓phonological disorders (patterns of sound errors)
- ✓motor planning disorders (apraxia, dysarthria)
- ✓fluency, prosody, pacing
**If you have Oral Motor concerns, please refer to: Oral Motor and Orofacial Myofunctional Treatment.
LANGUAGE THERAPY
Building the Language Skills Every Child Needs to Learn, Connect, and Thrive
Language development forms the foundation for everything your child learns, communicates, and connects with the world around them.
Language development consists of receptive language (our understanding of concepts) and expressive language (our ability to produce and convey our ideas). Our clients’ language goals may cover any of the following:
- ✓delayed milestones: following simple directions, babbling, producing 1st words or 1st phrases (2+ words)
- ✓listening comprehension
- ✓building vocabulary
- ✓producing and formulating different sentences
- ✓recalling and retrieving the right words
- ✓utilizing other means of communication (nonverbal language development; augmentative and alternative communication (AAC))
PRAGMATIC LANGUAGE & SOCIAL SKILLS
Helping Children Navigate Social Communication with Confidence
How we use language in our everyday lives is just as important as comprehension and expression.
At Gladstone Speech, we explore the building blocks of social interactions through play-based therapy, role-playing, social problem solving, and utilizing strategies for different conversational partners and for forming relationships.
We often address this aspect of Autism Spectrum Disorders and Social Communication Disorders.
