Various Available Speech Therapy Evaluation Treatments - Kioko Center

1
The Kioko Center
Speech Therapy Evaluation
Visit Our Website
kiokocenter.com
2
About us
At the Kioko Center our passion is helping
children with special needs and the families and
caregivers that support them. We offer speech
therapy and Occupational Therapy for Handwriting
in our clinic and online. We provide our patients
with the latest therapeutic interventions to
encourage amazing progress in a fun and
family-oriented atmosphere. Our clinical work
gives the children and young adults we work with
the tools they need to reach their full potential.
3
Speech Therapy Treatment
Kioko Center offers top-quality speech therapy
services for Articulation and Phonology.
Articulation, the intricate coordination of lips,
tongue, teeth, palate, and jaw, is crucial for
speech. Our therapy focuses on enhancing these
motor functions to improve syllables, words, and
overall communication through speaking. Contact
us for comprehensive evaluation, therapy, and
treatment.
4
(No Transcript)
5
Articulation Phonology
Articulation
Speech Therapy for Articulation is an aspect of
speech that involves rules for sequencing sounds.
While articulation disorders produce speech
errors, phonological disorders result in
predictable, rule-based errors. Yes, there are
unwritten rules for how we pattern our speech
sounds! And theres even a name for it. Each
language has a variety of speech sound rules
referred to as phonemes.
Phonology
Articulation is the process of physically
producing speech. That might seem easy enough,
right? Actually, articulation involves the
complicated coordination of lips, tongue, teeth,
top of the mouth(palate), and jaw to produce
sounds. Even your lungs play an important part in
articulation! All of these physical forces, also
called motor functions, combine to form
syllables, words, soundsspeech.
6
Social Language
Social language disorder or pragmatic language
disorder, is a problem related to the social
aspects of language use and understanding .
Social language disorders manifest in the
following ways

• Difficulty using language socially which includes
• understanding the environment
• reading non-verbal cues
• understanding non literal language such as jokes
  and sarcasm

• Difficulty following the rules of conversation
  which includes
• maintaining appropriate eye contact
• using non-verbal cues that are consistent with
  your verbal message
• greetings
• introducing a topic
• maintaining a topic
• appropriateness of topic and responses

7
Apraxia of Speech
Apraxia of speechalso known as childhood apraxia
of speech (CAS)is a disorder in which a child
has difficulty performing the actual physical
movements to produce coherent speech. In general,
children with CAS have a good understanding of
language and know what they want to say, but are
often unable to say it. Apraxia is a neurological
condition, and though a child might have the
cognitive language capacity to talk, mixed
signals between the brain and muscles make it
difficult for the child to coordinate correct
speech sound movements.
8
Contact Us
Our clinical work gives the children and young
adults we work with the tools they need to reach
their full potential.
978-681-6605
kioko_at_kiokocenter.com
kiokocenter.com
North Andover, MA 01845
9
(No Transcript)