Evaluations
Evaluations are conducted in the clinic or home setting using both standardized and informal measures. Parents will receive the results of the evaluation as well as recommendations for treatment and sample goals for their child, as appropriate.
Therapy
Practical Speech Solutions offers a variety of therapy options to best serve your child including varying lengths of sessions, frequency of sessions, and group therapy options that can be implemented in the home, school, or daycare settings within the Alexandria, VA area.
Consultations / Observations
Practical Speech Solutions is available to observe or consult at your child’s home or school setting. Observations include an informal evaluation of your child in a familiar setting to provide parents and caregivers with strategies. Consultations include phone conversations, school based meetings, and communications with teachers/caregivers.
Treatment Areas
- Articulation and Phonological Disorders (speech sound production difficulties)
- Auditory / Linguistic Processing deficits
- Autism / Asperger’s Syndrome
- Cognitive Impairment (organization, planning, problem solving, and memory)
- Developmental Delay
- Down Syndrome
- Emergent Literacy
- Language based Learning Disabilities
- Language delays or disorders (receptive and expressive language delays)
- Language processing / planning
- Late Talkers
- Non-verbal children
- Oral Motor skills (Improving muscular strength, coordination, and range of motion for better speech and swallowing abilities.)
- Pragmatics / Social use of language
- Speech disorders resulting from a hearing loss (aural rehabilitation)
- Stuttering / Fluency disorders
- Unintelligible speech