Speech-Language Therapy
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Pediatric Speech Therapy in Mankato
If you have concerns about your child's development, pediatric speech therapy can help. Speech-language pathologists help infants, children and families reach maximum function while at home, school and in the community.
Speech therapy can help:
- Correct speech sound errors
- Expand vocabulary
- Improve grammar skills
- Improve listening skills
- Improve social interactions
- Improve swallowing and feeding
How it works
During your first visit, a speech-language pathologist will meet with you to discuss your concerns and observe your child participating in a variety of activities. Examination includes listening and speaking communication skills, including fluency, language, social skills and speech sound errors. The speech-language pathologist may conduct specific testing to assess your child's current abilities.
After the evaluation, the speech-language pathologist will determine if services are recommended and develop a treatment plan that includes frequency for therapy, treatment goals and ideas for home activities.
Care is available for a variety of needs
Speech-language pathologists treat many pediatric speech disorders, which are caused by several conditions:
- Articulation and motor speech disorders, including apraxia/dyspraxia, dysarthria alone or secondary to other diagnoses
- Auditory processing disorders
- Autism spectrum disorders
- Cognitive and attention impairments
- Craniofacial abnormalities
- Developmental delays
- Feeding or swallowing issues and myofunctional/tongue thrust pattern
- Fluency and stuttering
- Genetic syndromes, such as Angelman syndrome, Down syndrome, Turner syndrome and Williams syndrome
- Hearing impairments or multisensory impairments
- Hoarse voice
- Literacy and preliteracy issues
- Neurological disorders, such as cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injury and stroke; seizure disorders; and unspecified neurological dysfunction
- Phonologic disorders
- Receptive and expressive language disorders/delays and specific language impairment
- Semantic or pragmatic language disorders
- Sensory integration dysfunction
- Swallowing
- Voice disorders
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