SLPs can help your child in the following areas:

Speech Sounds: This includes your child's production of sounds. When your child has difficulty producing sounds they may have problems with articulation, phonology, or childhood apraxia of speech. Learn more about these in the headings above.

Language: Language is how we understand what we read, hear, and how we use our words to communicate with others what we may be thinking. 

Social Communication: This involves how well we take turns, follow rules, how to talk to different people, or even how close to stand to others when having a conversation. This area of communication is referred to as Pragmatics.

Fluency: Fluency is also called "stuttering" and refers to how well our speech flows when communicating. Someone who has difficulty with fluency may repeat sounds when producing words such as "a-a-apple". Many young children grow out of their fluency difficulties, but sometimes it takes a while to outgrow, or sometimes it never really goes away.

Cognitive-Communication: This refers to how well our minds work. Cognitive-Communication is targeted when an individual is experiencing trouble with memory, thought organization, word-finding, problem-solving, or even attention. For a child, this may occur after experiencing a traumatic brain injury (TBI). 

Feeding/Swallowing: This refers to how well an individual can suck, swallow, and chew liquids and solids. Difficulty with swallowing may lead to life-threatening illnesses such as pneumonia or even malnutrition.

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