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Speech Therapy Evaluation and Treatments - Kioko Center

Kioko Center is dedicated to offering various therapies to ensure your child can achieve the highest level of functionality and well-being. We treat various disabilities such as Sensory Integration, Articulation and phonology, Social Language, Apraxia of Speech, and more. Visit and get complete information.

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Speech Therapy Evaluation and Treatments - Kioko Center

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  1. The KIOKO CENTER Pediatric Occupational and Speech Therapy Our passion is helping children with special needs and the families and caregivers that support them. PHONE NUMBER WEBSITE 978-681-6605 • www.kiokocenter.com

  2. INTRODUCTION The Kioko Center has been providing expert occupational and speech therapy services to children and young adults, ages birth to 21 years, since 2006. During that time, we have developed the highest quality standards for our therapies and services. Our staff are highly trained and prepared to integrate the latest therapy techniques into your child’s sessions. We provide comprehensive, individualized therapies which facilitate overall development and independence. We look to our name, Kioko, meaning “Happy Child” in Japanese as a guiding principle for our work.

  3. Massachusetts Pediatric Occupational Therapy and Speech Therapy for Children and Young Adults At the Kioko Center, we are passionate about providing the very best Occupational therapy and SLP therapy services for children and young adults. We serve the schools, therapists, and families that support them. We are a pediatric therapy organization that specializes in occupational therapy and speech therapy. Our multidisciplinary, holistic approach gives each child the best chance to realize their full potential.

  4. SPEECH THERAPY EVALUATION AND TREATMENT FOR • Articulation & Phonology • Social Language • Apraxia of Speech • Receptive Language • Expressive Language • Stuttering • Executive Functioning • AAC • Literacy

  5. ARTICULATION & PHONOLOGY • Articulation is the process of physically producing speech. That might seem easy enough, right? Actually, articulation involves the complicated coordination of lips, tongue, teeth, top of the mouth(palate), and jaw to produce sounds. Even your lungs play an important part in articulation! All of these physical forces, also called motor functions, combine to form syllables, words, sounds—speech. • Phonology is an aspect of speech that involves rules for sequencing sounds. While articulation disorders produce speech errors, phonological disorders result in predictable, rule-based errors. Yes, there are unwritten rules for how we pattern our speech sounds! And there’s even a name for it. Each language has a variety of speech sound rules referred to as phonemes. For example, a phoneme rule in the English language has the /ng/ sound always occurring at the end of a word, as in “thing.”

  6. SOCIAL LANGUAGE • Social language disorder or pragmatic language disorder, is a problem related to the social aspects of language use and understanding. Social language disorders manifest in the following ways: Difficulty using language socially which includes • understanding the environment • reading non-verbal cues • understanding non literal language such as jokes and sarcasm Difficulty following the rules of conversation which includes • maintaining appropriate eye contact • using non verbal cues that are consistent with your verbal message • greetings • introducing a topic • maintaining a topic • appropriateness of topic and responses

  7. APRAXIA OF SPEECH • Apraxia of speech—also known as childhood apraxia of speech (CAS)—is a disorder in which a child has difficulty performing the actual physical movements to produce coherent speech. In general, children with CAS have a good understanding of language and know what they want to say, but are often unable to say it. Apraxia is a neurological condition, and though a child might have the cognitive language capacity to talk, mixed signals between the brain and muscles make it difficult for the child to coordinate correct speech sound movements. • You might be thinking, “Yeah, but what does CAS sound like?” Well, depending on the child, CAS can result in the distortion of certain speech sounds. Some kids might have less trouble with smaller words, while others stumble into difficulty with the rhythm of speech. Another CAS symptom results in the child’s inability to produce the same words and sounds consistently.

  8. CONTACT DETAILS • 978-681-6605 • www.kiokocenter.com • 820 Turnpike St #104, North Andover, MA 01845 • kioko@kiokocenter.com

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