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Services for children & adolescents: I- ASSESSING & TREATING COMMUNICATION DISORDERS IN THE FOLLOWING CASES: Delayed language development Autism spectrum disorders Dysfluency...
LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED IN THE FOLLOWING CASES: Children who show great difficulties with vocabulary, sentence length, understanding language, following classroom instructions,...
AL SLC, THERAPY TARGETS ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING AREAS: LANGUAGE EXPRESSION(THE PRODUCTION OF SPOKEN AND WRITTEN COMMUNICATION): Difficulty developing single words, combining words...
It is language that provides children with a mechanism for social interaction and communication with one another. Efficient language skills are crucial for both academic as well as occupational succes...
EARLY SIGNS OF AUTISM The child: doesn't respond on calling his name has limited eye contact appears as if he is hard of hearing / can't hear properly doesn't care...
HEARING DIFFICULTIES: Hearing ability depends on the precise, intricate, and accurate functioning of the whole auditory system. When the outer or middle ear malfunctions, a person may experience co...
CHILDHOOD APRAXIA OF SPEECH (CAS) : Childhood apraxia of speech, sometimes referred to as developmental verbal dyspraxia, is a neurological pediatric (childhood) speech sound disorder in which the...
Speech is a remarkable and complicated process involving a variety of linguistic, cognitive and sensorimotor processes. Fluent speech is the consistent ability to move the speech organs in an effortl...
ORAL MOTOR DIFFICULTIES: Oral motor disorders include weakness in oral muscles or difficulties with programming of the oro-motor act leading to frequent salivation, difficulties with chewing and sw...
Cleft palate occurs mostly due to genetic factors. However, environmental as well as mechanical factors might also have a role in its occurrence. People with cleft palate have communication disorders...
Speech and language acquisition and development require certain pre-requisites including intact sensory channels particularly auditory ones, intact central processing areas in the brain, adequate cogn...
CENTRAL AUDITORY PROCESSING DISORDERS (CAPD): Some children have central auditory processing difficulties despite their intact peripheral hearing. This can, in turn, affect their ability to follow in...
SPEECH SOUNDS ERRORS: ARTICULATORY-PHONOLOGICAL DISORDERS Clear communication with others can be disrupted by one or more variables that can make a child misunderstood by members of his speech...
Inadequate or inappropriate pragmatics / social communication skills constitute a significant component of language disorders. Pragmatics in children with language disorders may be inadequate or even...