Various Speech Therapy Evaluation and Available Treatments - Kioko Center

1. The Kioko Center Speech Therapy Evaluation Visit Our Website kiokocenter.com

2. Please feel free to contact us 978.681.6605 About us At the Kioko Center our passion is helping children with special needs and the families and caregivers that support them. We offer speech therapy andOccupational Therapy for Handwriting in our clinic and online. We provide our patients with the latest therapeutic interventions to encourage amazing progress in a fun and family-oriented atmosphere. Our clinical work gives the children and young adults we work with the tools they need to reach their full potential.

3. Speech Therapy Treatment Kioko Center offers top-quality speech therapy services for Articulation and Phonology. Articulation, the intricate coordination of lips, tongue, teeth, palate, and jaw, is crucial for speech. Our therapy focuses on enhancing these motor functions to improve syllables, words, and overall communication through speaking. Contact us for comprehensive evaluation, therapy, and treatment.

4. Speech Therapy Evaluation and Treatment for Articulation & Phonology Social Language Apraxia of Speech Receptive Language Expressive Language 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! Social language disorder or pragmatic language disorder, is a problem related to the social aspects of language use and understanding . 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. Receptive language refers to our ability to understand verbal and non-verbal language. In speech therapy, receptive language refers to the comprehension of word meanings, concepts, and gestures. Expressive language refers to how a child uses words to express themselves or convey information through speech, writing, and gestures.

5. Articulation & Phonology Articulation Speech Therapy for Articulationis 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. 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.

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.

8. Contact Us Our clinical work gives the children and young adults we work with the tools they need to reach their full potential. 978-681-6605 kioko@kiokocenter.com kiokocenter.com North Andover, MA 01845

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