Pediatric Speech and Language Therapists work with your child to help your child learn language and speech skills that are important for communication in their everyday life.
What are these communication skills?
- Ability to speak clearly
- Ability to develop language both expressive (what they are saying) and receptive (what they are understanding)
- Ability to play
- Ability to be social and interact with others
- Ability to process what we hear
- A further focus of Speech and Language Therapy is on the development and strengthening of your infant or child’s oral-motor skills for feeding, drinking, and communicating.
Pediatric Speech-Language Pathologists:
- Develop strength, coordination, endurance, and range of motion of your child’s mouth, lips, and cheeks
- Improve your child’s understanding and expression of language
- Improve your child’s speech/sound production
- Decrease your child’s stuttering behaviors
- Improve your child’s swallowing patterns to reduce tongue thrust
- Improve your child’s communication through the provision of augmentative communication systems
- Improve your child’s eating and swallowing skill development
- Promote your child’s age-appropriate play, social and interactive skills
Contact our Director of Therapy Services, Renee Gwin, at Therapy@chomepgh.org with any questions regarding Speech Therapy Services.