Speech-Language

Our doctors believe that speech-language evaluation may be vital in determining the origins of struggles children and adolescents experience at home, in school, and at play.

During evaluation, the speech-language pathologist examines the following areas of concern:

• Receptive language, the language he or she understands when spoken to
• Expressive language, the language used by him or her for communication
• Articulation, how he or she makes speech sounds
• Pragmatics, otherwise known as social language

This is what you can expect at the speech-language evaluation:

• Brief clinical interview with parents
• Receptive and expressive language evaluation of the patient
• Articulation evaluation of the patient
• Pragmatics evaluation of the patient
• Scoring, interpretation, and report writing.

This is what you can expect at the speech-language consultation:

• Explanation of observations and scores obtained during evaluation and other data collections measures
• Explanation of diagnoses
• Recommendations and treatment plan development
• Written report detailing the evaluation and consultation appointments will follow this appointment – you will receive it in approximately three weeks.