Does your child...

If you answer "yes" to any of the below, I would love to talk with you to answer your questions or address other concerns you might have.  Please call me to chat or to book an appointment, or contact me to send a message.

• Substitute, leave off, or change sounds, which make it hard for people to understand what is being said?
• Have a history of no or limited cooing, babbling or vocal play (quiet baby/toddler)?
• Say only a few different sounds (have a limited repertoire of consonants and vowels)?
• Have difficulty or resist imitating sounds, gestures and/or facial expressions? Or, if he/she does imitate, productions sound better than when produced on their own.
• Use predominantly simple syllable shapes?
• Delete initial, medial or final consonants or entire syllables?
• Have increased difficulty with longer and/or more complex syllable shapes and word shapes?
• Master words or sounds, then lose them?
• Say the same syllable or word differently from one production to the next?
• Understand what others say better than he/she can talk?
• Have expressive language problems like word order confusion, grammatical errors, difficulty learning new vocabulary/naming objects, and/or with verbal sequencing or use of descriptive language?
• Struggle with following directions, understanding what others say, and/or have difficulty answering questions?
• Have problems with social language/pragmatics?
• Struggle with reading, spelling or writing?
• Have difficulty expressing ideas clearly and/or have trouble putting words together into sentences?
• Have an open mouth posture, breathe with his mouth open, or have an atypical swallow or “tongue thrust”?
• Have oral/sucking habits (digit sucking, pacifiers, sippy cups)?