Disorders
Disorders are highly correlated with communication, feeding, and motor development:
- Prematurity and/or low birth weight
- Neurological disorders (i.e., cerebral palsy)
- Learning disabilities
- ADD/ADHD (attention deficit disorders)
- Developmental delays
- Brain injury/stroke
- Intellectual disabilities
- Syndromes that impact growth and development (i.e., Down’s syndrome, Fragile X)
- Chronic ear infections and/or hearing loss
Some signs that require a Speech-Language or Swallowing Evaluation
- Frustration when communicating
- Speech that is not understood
- Difficulty following directions
- Improper grammatical structures
- Chronic hoarseness
- Limited vocabulary
- Difficulty answering questions
- Sudden change in ability to communicate
- Difficulty with swallowing and/or eating
- Poor socialization
Some signs that require an Occupational Therapy Evaluation
- Lacks body awareness (bumps things; clumsy)
- Lacks hand preference
- Uses one hand for tasks that require both
- Delay in motor coordination (gross/fine motor skills)
- Difficulty with balance activities
- Difficulty with forming peer relationships
- Lacks appropriate social skills for age.
- Appears defensive to touch/textures, tastes, smells or sounds
- Excessively craves rough play and may show lack of safety awareness
- Is always in motion or difficulty attending
Kids Resources
Some signs that require a Reading Evaluation
Is your child struggling in the following areas:
- Learning to speak
- Learning letters and their sounds
- Organizing written and spoken language
- Memorizing number facts
- Reading quickly enough to comprehend
- Persisting with and comprehending longer reading assignments
- Spelling
- Learning a foreign language
- Correctly doing math operations
We offer Orton-Gillingham based reading intervention, a multi-sensory, sequential, cumulative language art program to facilitate improvement in reading and writing skills.
Related Links
The below links can connect you to a variety of therapy organizations, institutions, and methods. We hope you find these useful and resourceful.
- American Speech, Language Hearing Association: www.asha.org
- The Hanen Program: www.hanen.org
- Beckman Oral Motor: www.beckmanoralmotor.com
- Handwriting Without Tears: www.hwtears.com
- The Scerts Model: www.scerts.com
- The Floortime Foundation: www.floortime.org
- The National Stuttering Association: www.nsastutter.org
- Autism Institute: www.autisminstitute.com
- The Autism Education Network: nationalautismnetwork.com
- The Autism Society of America: www.autism-society.org
- Beyond Play: www.beyondplay.com
- SPD Network: www.spdnetwork.org
- The Prompt Institute: www.promptinstitute.com
- The Kaufman Speech Praxis Technique: www.kidspeech.com
- Picture Exchange Communication System: www.pecs.com
- Talk Tools Oral Motor Program: www.talktoolstm.com
- Baby Signs® Program: www.babysignlanguage.com
- Zero to Three: www.zerotothree.org