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Child Speech Therapy Services in King County

We provide speech and language therapy services in United States. The mission of ABLE Health is to Achieve a Better Life for Everyone – children, families, and the professionals who serve them, regardless of their disabilities and cultural backgrounds.<br>

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Child Speech Therapy Services in King County

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  1. ABLE Health

  2. GET CHILD SPEECH THERAPY SERVICES IN KING COUNTY Children develop speech and language skills within a specified age. If someone takes longer then there could be a problem with learning speech and language. Do you notice halted speech or a distracting stutter when your child is speaking? Did the teacher in school observe a certain problem in the language skills of your child? These problems could signal that your child needs assistance for speech language therapy.

  3. Speech disorders are categorized into the below 3 broad categories: Speech disorders: The child may have difficulty in articulating sounds correctly or speaks in a way that others can’t understand what is being spoken by them. Hearing impairments can also affect a child’s ability to say sounds correctly. Fluency disorders: The flow of child’s speech is interrupted by unexpected and abnormal stoppages. Voice disorders: The child’s voice may have issues with the pitch, volume, and nasal resonance that distracts or impacts how well people can understand them.

  4.  Other speech disorders include the below ones:  Dysarthria  Orofacial Myofunctional Disorders  Childhood Apraxia of Speech  Stuttering  Speech Sound Disorders  Voice Disorders While a speech disorder refers to a problem with actual production of sounds by a child, a language disorder refers to a problem wherein a child has difficulty in understanding or using words and sentences communicate with others.

  5. Language disorders include the below ones:  Preschool Language Disorders like delays in understanding or using language  Learning Disabilities Related to Reading, Writing and Spelling  Selective Mutism  Social Communication Disorders Speech and language evaluation A speech and language evaluation is performed on the child within the context of their total development to begin the right treatment. Evaluation is needed to assess some or all of the below conditions in a child:

  6. Testing for early intervention services The speech therapist performs the appropriate testing to identify the child’s unique strengths and weaknesses for early intervention services to meet those needs. Speech language therapy King County ABLE Health provides specialized child speech therapy King County services wherein they treat and evaluate the children suffering from various speech and language disorders.

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