Our services include Speech & Language Therapy and treatment of Orofacial Myofunctional Disorders (OMD) Therapy including pre and post therapy for frenectomy.

Speech & Language Therapy

What is Speech & Language Therapy?

In speech-language therapy, an SLP works with a child one-on-one to overcome problems.

Therapists use a variety of strategies, including:

• Language intervention activities where we interact with the individual to stimulate language development, modeling correct vocabulary and grammar and using repetition exercises to build language skills.
  
• Articulation therapy (i.e. sound production) exercises involve modeling correct sounds and syllables in words and sentences for a child.
  
• Oral-motor/feeding and swallowing therapy may use a variety of oral exercises — including mouth breathing and various tongue, lip, and jaw exercises — to strengthen the muscles of the mouth for eating, drinking, and swallowing.

Types of Issues We Treat

Orofacial Myofunctional Treatment

What is orofacial myofunctional treatment?

To better understand what orofacial myofunctional therapy is:

• ORO is oral or the mouth
• FACIAL is the face
• MYO means muscle
• FUNCTIONAL means a specific, natural action or activity working properly
• THERAPY is the process of rehabilitation

We work to correct the improper functioning of the tongue and face muscles and apply this to basic mouth functions which include:

• Tongue Resting Position
• Saliva swallowing
• Chewing and swallowing food
• Liquid swallows
• Speech

Types of Issues We Treat