Manhattan, NYC Speech Therapy for Toddlers
Our Manhattan speech therapists can help your toddler who needs speech language therapy for expressive language, receptive language, oral motor, early childhood speech language delay, autism spectrum disorders (PDD, Aspergers), stuttering, feeding therapy, and AAC augmentative and alternative therapy. We also offer bilingual speech language therapy.
A language disorder or delay is a communication disorder that deals with difficulties in using and understanding spoken language.
A delay in language disorders or disorders that is not quickly addressed can cause children to fall behind in school. Research has shown that around 5% of pre-school-age children and 3% of grade school children have mixed receptive-expressive language disorders.
👉 Bilingual Speech Language Therapy
Statistics estimate that more than half of the world’s population is bilingual or can fluently speak both languages. According to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), bilingualism is a series of language skills.
Children learning multiple languages display certain traits when speaking and communicating that are unique to bilingualism (such as remaining silent when the other language is spoken during conversations). Most of the time, these features in speaking and communicating do not signify a language disorder.
A bilingual speech and language pathologist (SLP) must complete a speech-language evaluation to determine if a child’s speech or language problems are caused by acquiring a second language or are signs of a more serious issue.
👉 Oral Motor Speech Therapy
.Oral motor exercises that improve muscle tone, including blowing whistles, sucking straws, and chewing on chewy tubes, are supposedly practiced without working on actual sounds. They claim to improve general oral mouth muscle or tone, but there is no medical evidence that they improve speech. Yep, none! Our mouths are designed for many functions (breathing, drinking, chewing, swallowing, etc.), and the more you know about the scientific study of speech therapy, the more this makes sense.
👉 Early Childhood Speech-Language Delay
When we set up an initial consultation, we will assess your child’s speech abilities and determine if there are language delays. Our analysis will focus on where your child has difficulty manifesting their speech and language development. Identifying the root cause is essential for effective treatment. In addition to speech therapy, we provide language therapy for all ages.
Delays in early language development affect the acquisition of sounds, and words, transforming words, becoming a more communicative person, and learning about cognitive or linguistic concepts that are simple to recall, such as big vs. small, next to vs. under, some vs. all, or first vs. last.
👉 Autism Spectrum Disorders (PDD, Aspergers)
Autism Spectrum Disorder, or ASD, is estimated to affect one in 54 children in the United States alone, according to a 2020 finding by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network (ADDM).
To identify autism spectrum disorder, interdisciplinary collaboration is necessary involving a professional and a family member. Speech-language pathologists help assess ASD, along with doctors, pediatric neurologists, and developmental pediatricians.
👉 Stuttering
Stuttering is one of the most common communication disorders. An individual who stutters will have disruptions with certain characteristics in the state of speech. These interruptions usually consist of word repetitions (repeating words), prolonged sounds, difficulty with word retrieval (other than word finding), and muscle tension in the lungs, throat, or jaw. Tension builds in the lungs or throat, or jaw when blocks occur.
👉 Receptive Language
A language disorder, also known as a language delay, is a communication disorder characterized by difficulties in using and understanding spoken language. Language disorders are classified into two types: expressive and mixed expressive-receptive language disorders. These conditions can be inherited, developmental, or result from traumatic brain injuries. When a child or an individual has problems compared to peers listening and understanding age-appropriate vocabulary, longer sentences, and more complex or nuanced language, this could be a sign of receptive language issues. Students with language disorders will have reading comprehension problems when the structure and complexity of the written language exceed their ability to comprehend effectively what is expected by their age/grade.
👉 Listening Difficulties
Central auditory processing disorder (sound processing disorder), also known as auditory processing disorder, refers to errors in interpreting language or hearing verbal information in noisy conditions. The brain fails to translate the meaning of the person’s words and cannot distinguish distinct speech sounds. Children with CAPD typically struggle to remember—or remember correctly—what they hear.
👉 Feeding Therapy
Pediatric feeding disorders are characterized by complications in oral intake that are often caused by a child’s age. It is common for delays in eating, drinking, chewing, sucking, swallowing, and swallowing as well as food angioneurotic tendencies, food aversions, food refusal, and food texture and selectivity.
👉 AAC Augmentative and Alternative Therapy
AAC refers to an individual’s methods of expressing thoughts, ideas, or feelings without speaking. Some of the most basic examples of AAC are gestures, text-to-speech programs, or using a pencil and notepad to communicate.
AAC (Augmented and Alternative Communication) devices are used a great deal, including those with autism spectrum disorders, cerebral palsy, dysarthria, aphasia, and for children with severe speech-language delays.
If you seek language and speech therapy for toddlers and feeding services, you must work with one of our licensed speech-language therapists/pathologists.
To start services by our speech-language pathologists, we require a written justification from a licensed therapist or physician, regardless of his or her affiliation with Manhattan Letters. Documentation usually includes ICD-10 codes. We will also need new objectives. These objectives may come from recent reports or current professionals working with your child. If you still need to get these codes, we can help!
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