A boutique-style practice specializing in speech sound disorders, SpeechEase, PLLC provides evidence-based, individualized speech and language services for children 1-14 years old
Areas of treatment
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Articulation Disorders
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Receptive & Expressive Language Disorders
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Phonological Pattern Disorders
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Delayed Speech and Language
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Childhood Apraxia of Speech*
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Fluency Disorders/ Stuttering
*PROMPT, DTTC, Kaufman and ReST methods
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Targeted & Comprehensive Evaluations
SpeechEase, PLLC offers speech and language evaluations conducted by a certified and licensed speech-language pathologist to determine your child's areas of strength and weakness.
This includes a review of your child's medical and social history, formal standardized assessments and informal clinical observations made during the session. You will receive a written report of findings and recommendations.
Individual Speech and Language Therapy
High-quality, evidence-based treatment for speech and language challenges are provided in a one-on-one session targeting your child's specific goals. Frequency and length of sessions are determined by the needs of your child.
*Teletherapy sessions available
Screenings
Unsure if your child would benefit from speech or language therapy?
SpeechEase, PLLC offers free 20-minute individual screenings to determine whether or not your child should have a full speech- language evaluation.
Childhood Apraxia Of Speech
American Speech Language and Hearing Association
Apraxia is a motor speech disorder that makes it hard for children to speak. It can take a lot of work to learn to say sounds and words better. Speech-language pathologists, or SLPs, can help.
What Is PROMPT?
By The PROMPT Institute
PROMPT is an acronym for Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets. The technique is a tactile-kinesthetic approach that uses touch cues to a patient’s articulators (jaw, tongue, lips) to manually guide them through a targeted word, phrase or sentence.
How Does your Child Hear and Talk
American Speech Language and Hearing Association
Your child starts communicating with you long before he says his first word. Learn more about what your child should do in his first 5 years and how you can help.
What is DTTC?
By Once Upon a Time Foundation
DTTC is a treatment method designed specifically for children with severe CAS, especially those who were not successful with more traditional forms of therapy, and has been used successfully with moderate CAS as well. DTTC is a motor-based approach, meaning it is designed to improve the brain’s ability to plan and program movements for speech, which most experts believe is the underlying cause of CAS.
The Efficacy of the Cycles Approach
Journal of Communication Disorders
The Cycles Phonological Remediation Approach (Hodson & Paden, 1991; Hodson, 2010; Prezas & Hodson, 2010) is a prominent intervention method for treating severe speech sound disorders (SSD) in preschool and school age children. Not only is it one of the most frequently implemented phonological methods in clinical practice (Rvachew, Nowak, & Cloutier, 2004), but it has also been accepted as a standard method for treating SSDs in research studies.