Pediatric Speech Therapy

What is Pediatric Speech Therapy?

Could my child benefit?

Speech Therapy helps support kids in their development of speech, receptive and expressive language, social communication, cognitive-communication, and the oral skills needed for safe feeding and swallowing.

Little boy communicating with puppet in pediatric speech therapy.

 Pediatric speech therapy addresses the following:

  • Alternative and augmentative communication (high- and low-tech devices, sign language, and picture exchange systems)
  • Articulation of speech sounds
  • Developmentally appropriate play skills
  • Executive functioning skills
  • Drinking, chewing, and swallowing patterns
  • Language development
  • Lip and tongue resting posture
  • Literacy
  • Pragmatic (social) language skills
  • Respiratory patterns

Children with the following conditions are commonly evaluated and treated by pediatric speech-language pathologists

  • Abnormal muscle tone
  • Autism spectrum disorder
  • Childhood apraxia of speech
  • Cerebral palsy
  • Craniofacial disorders (including cleft lip and palate)
  • Down Syndrome
  • Dysarthria
  • Dyslexia and other language-based literacy concerns
  • Dysphagia
  • Failure to thrive
  • Feeding tube dependence
  • Gastroesophageal reflux disease
  • Genetic conditions
  • Hearing and vision impairments
  • Language-based learning disorders
  • Language delay
  • Orofacial myofunctional disorders
  • Premature birth
  • Selective eating
  • Speech delay
  • Stuttering
  • Traumatic brain injury
  • Voice disorders
Our Speech Therapists

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Madelyn Dorenkamp
Madelyn Dorenkamp
Speech Language Pathologist
Emily Christensen-Neufeld
Emily Christensen-Neufeld
Speech Language Pathologist
Monica Bender
Monica Bender
Speech Language Pathologist