Pediatrics First Speech Therapy :: Pediatrics1st.com

Common Etiologies:

Consult Pediatrics First Therapy when:

A child has difficulty expressing needs/wants or routine information intelligibly.
A child's communication skills inhibit them from communicating independently for their expected age.
A child's speech intelligibility and/or language abilities (including reading & writing) inhibit them from performing successfully in and educational environment.
A child demonstrates sensory-integration difficulties and is unable to progress successfully from liquid to to solid foods
A child with known respiratory, neurological, and/or structural abnormalities with delayed chronological development across the speech, language, voice, or feeding /oral motor areas.
A child has an abnormally "hoarse" or "harsh" vocal quality for an extended amount of time. (Clearance from an ENT is mandatory prior to initiation of voice therapy).
A child demonstrates significant difficulty with fluency of speech and is known to "stutter".
A child residing in a bilingual household demonstrates communication delays in both languages.