Speech & Language Disorders in Adolescents
Speech Therapy Center, LLC, provides speech-language therapy, auditory processing, oral motor and myofunctional therapy for the following communication disorders in adolescents:
Articulation Delays/Disorders
An Articulation Disorder involves difficulties producing sounds. Sounds may be substituted, omitted, added or deleted in an articulation disorder. Read More
Apraxia of Speech/Motor Speech Disorders
Apraxia of speech is a motor-speech programming disorder resulting in difficulty executing and/or coordinating the oral- motor movement necessary to produce and combine speech sounds to form syllables, words, phrases and sentences on voluntary control. Read More
Oral Motor Disorders
Oral-motor skills involve the movements of the lips, jaw, tongue and cheeks. These muscles are important for eating, drinking and speech. Read More
Myofunctional Disorders
Oral Myofunctional Disorder (OMD) occurs when there is an abnormal tongue, jaw or lip position during rest, swallowing or speech. Read More
Receptive/Expressive Language Disorders
Adolescents with receptive or expressive language disorders have difficulty expressing themselves using speech. Read More
Higher Level Language Disorders
Inferencing, problem solving, and figurative language. Read More
Social Skills/Pragmatics
Social Pragmatic Language Disorders may also be known as semantic/pragmatic language disorder, non-verbal learning disability (NLD). Read More
Fluency Disorders (Stuttering and Cluttering)
Stuttering is a disorder characterized by disruptions in the production of speech sounds, also called “disfluencies”. Cluttering is a communication disorder characterized by speech that is difficult for listeners to understand. Read More
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