Skills We Build
Speech Sounds
Some children have challenges producing speech sounds, causing them to be unintelligible when they speak. Based on a child’s age, some speech errors are expected. However, by the age of four, a child should be 100% intelligible, and by the age of six, a child should have all of their speech sounds and produce no speech errors. Please call for a free consultation for further information.
Language
This is referring to a child’s ability to understand others and combine words to express wants, needs, and ideas. By the age of two, a child should be combining two words together and by the age of three, a child should be combining three words together. Language concerns can occur for both younger and older children, and they can result in literacy challenges, ungrammatical sentences, disorganized stories, and difficulty following directions.
Social Skills
(Pragmatic Language)
Pragmatic language is the use of language to communicate socially. For young children, this could involve developing skills connected to playing with others. For older children, with their feedback, this could involve working on initiating conversation, taking turns, competitiveness, and learning others' perspectives.
Executive Functioning
This is one’s ability to organize the world around them to complete daily, age-appropriate activities. This includes increasing attention, planning, organizing, and mentally manipulating variables (like we do in mathematics). Problems with executive functioning can make any of the following activities challenging: cleaning a room, planning out projects, organizing homework, and prioritizing tasks to complete.
Play-Based Therapy
A child’s play skills contribute to increased language skills, social skills, pragmatics, and overall problem solving. Play can include using a variety of toys appropriately, pretend play skills, turn taking, and interacting with others during play.