Our vision at Small Town Speech & Language is to deliver quality, research based, speech and language services to our clients. We provide speech and language assessment and/or therapy to infants, toddlers, school-aged children and adults in East Contra Costa County. Therapy is conducted in the clinical setting or via a home based delivery model where the therapist will go into the home, preschools, daycare centers, parks, etc... to provide speech and language therapy to clients dependent on their individual need. Speech and Language therapy is family centered, as this is vital to clients' success.
Services
Speech and Language assessment and/or therapy may be focused on any of the following:
Receptive and Expressive language: Vocabulary development, sentence structure, grammar, etc.
Social Skills: nonverbal and/or verbal language use, understanding/expressing emotions, perspective taking
Augmentative and Alternative Communication: also known as AAC, support would include client and family training on picture exchange communication, visual schedules, programming and training on use of high tech communication devices (i.e. iPad with a communication application), etc...
Articulation: increasing speech intelligibility, phonological processing deficits, speech sound delay
Phonemic Awareness: phoneme isolation, elision, blending words, rhyming, phoneme deletion, segmenting
Auditory Processing: auditory cohesion, basic phonological skills, auditory memory, auditory attention
Stuttering: this impacts the fluency of speech and is characterized by- repetitions (I-I-I-I like you), sound prolongations (fffffffffollow your heart), and interjections (Take me uh-uh-uh-to the ball game). Furthermore, it can be intensified by secondary characteristics such as "facial grimaces, blocks, eye twitches, etc."
