Service Pathway
Charting the Journey
Assesment
The assessment process helps evaluate a client's unique needs and strengths in order to provide effective services.
Treatment Approaches
A variety of evidence- based therapies are available to effective address and overcome communication challenges.
Consulting & Coaching
Collaboration with other professionals involved in your or your child's care is a vital component of effective therapy.
Assessment
A speech language assessment is a comprehensive evidence-based tool that helps
determine an individual’s communication abilities and areas for improvement.
Case History Review
A client’s medical history is an important aspect of the evaluation process. It helps the speech pathologist collect medical history, developmental milestones, education, past interventions, and other professionals that may be or have been accessed related to the patients’ concerns. This information provides context and identifying factors that may contribute to the therapy planning process.
Hearing Screening
Since hearing is crucial to language development, a basic hearing screening may be performed or recommended to rule out hearing loss as a contributing factor.
Standardized Testing
Standardized tests use evidence-based data to assess a client’s level of skill based on normative data and results of same aged peers.
Oral-Motor Examination
An oral-motor exam assesses the physical structures used for speech (like lips, tongue, and jaw) to identify any difficulties with muscle strength, coordination, or movement that could affect speech production.
Informal Assessment
Informal assessments are tests that allow a Speech language pathologist to gather information about a client’s skills that may not otherwise be seen on standardized testing. These assessments may be structured differently with different criteria, individualized data collection, and different measures of reliability and validity.
Plan of Care
Recommendations, Consultation, Goal Setting
After the assessment we will determine the specific areas for intervention,
sets personalized goals, and develops a tailored treatment plan.
This often includes collaboration with families or caregivers to support progress outside of therapy sessions.
Empowering Communication
Treatment Approaches
Articulation & Phonological
Therapy focuses on specific speech sound production at the word, phrase, and sentence structure. Therapy will help you produce more accurate speech sound targets and generalize them into your conversational speech. Therapy can also focus on correct posture and structural positioning to sequence the production of sounds correctly.
Fluency Disorders
Therapy includes teaching individuals to recognize dysfluent speech and strategies to confidently produce more fluent speech.
Receptive Language Disorders
Therapy is complex and specific to your area of need, including but not limited to, understanding language concepts, grammar, literacy, and vocabulary.
Expressive Disorders
Therapy focuses on teaching clients how to express their thoughts clearly and concisely, use appropriate grammar, reading, writing, and many other skills.
Pragmatic Language
Therapy helps clients learn executive functioning skills. Along with improving social communication skills, such as taking turns in conversation, reading non verbal cues, and adapting language for different conversations.
Cognitive Language Therapy
Therapy helps clients improve executive functioning skills by targeting the cognitive process, like memory, attention, organization of thoughts, and problem-solving to enhance communications and comprehension.
Augmentative & Alternative Communication Therapy
For individuals with severe speech or language challenges, AAC provides alternative ways to communicate. Therapy services involve selecting or working with an existing device and training the individual and caregivers to use it effectively. Pathways to communicate has experience with devices like Touchchat, Proloquo2Go, LAMP, and PECS, but not limited to.
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If you or a loved one needs help finding their voice, the journey starts here.