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“Assessment and treatment of speech and language delays and deficits to help people of all ages from babies to adult to develop skill for successful communication.”

Speech therapy is the process of a complete treatment of abnormalities or anomalies that occur while speaking. Speech therapy is an intervention service that focuses on improving a child’s speech and abilities to understand and express language, including nonverbal language. If your kid has trouble reading and spelling, speech therapy may not seem like the obvious answer. Many people think that speech therapists only work for the people who have trouble articulating certain sounds or who stutter or lisp. Our Speech-Language Therapists (SLTs) are the professionals who provide speech therapy for all facing speech and language issues. Adults patients with voice problem, stuttering and communications problems secondary to stroke , Motor Vehicle Accident (MVA) are also can be treated by our SLTs at our center.

Benefits of Speech Therapy

Social skills

Speech therapy helps kids develop conversational skills and improve interaction with others. One can express their thoughts, needs, and ideas in a more understandable manner. It helps increase the ability to use the language for different purposes (e.g., to inform, greet people about demand and things etc.).

Better quality of life

Speech therapy refers to the overall flow of speech. The most common speech-related problem is stuttering, which may or may not be accompanied by secondary behaviors such as physical ticks. Therapy that addresses speech fluency or stuttering concerns can help your child, making it easier for them to communicate people.

Improvement in language understanding

It is not uncommon for children to have difficulty in understanding certain parts of speech. When this happens, it becomes difficult for people to understand what was said to them by the child, which can further lead to a variety of problems, especially if the kid is in school. Therapy targeting language comprehension helps the kid improve the knowledge of important parts of speech, and hence help them develop stronger literacy skills for the future.

Articulation Improvement

Working with a speech therapist can help improve you or your child’s overall articulation. Disorders that impact the form of speech sounds are traditionally referred to as articulation disorders and are associated with structural and motor-based difficulties. Our speech therapists help kids with articulation disorders.

Increased independence

The ability to portray one’s self is paramount. Speech therapy helps your kid to achieve a greater ability to use and understand language so that s/he communicates with others and expresses himself to the greatest extent possible.

Speech therapy in the formative days can be helpful to address the problems before they become more serious. Speech therapy helps your child to be more successful in school and to become a more independent communicator. AFA evaluates your child on a wide range of speech and language disorders and develops a customized treatment plan to meet their needs.

Speech therapy is a treatment proven to be highly effective because it addresses one of the principle challenges that children with autism experience, that is, communication skills. This, in return, helps the child be more comfortable and efficient in forming relationships and navigating their day-to-day life.