FAQ & Fees
What does therapy cost?
Do you charge for traveling costs and time?
Nope! Fees include all traveling expenses for private clients..
What does a Speech Language Therapist do?
Speech Language therapists(SLTs) work to prevent, assess, diagnose, and treat speech, language, literacy, social communication, cognitive-communication, and swallowing disorders in children and adults.
How long will my child need therapy?
Families often ask how long their child will be in speech therapy. Because every child is unique with individual strengths and difficulties, there is no set answer to that question. Research does indicate that frequency, intensity and duration of treatment as well as diligent completion of home programmes provided, impact outcomes.
When should I be worried about my child’s speaking?
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Birth to 5 months
- Coos
- Vocalizes pleasure and displeasure (laughs, giggles, cries, fusses)
Makes noise when talked to
12 to 17 months
- Answers simple questions non-verbally
- Says two to three words as labels for people or objects
- Tries imitating simple words
- Vocabulary of 4 to 6 words
2-3 years
- Knows some spatial concepts, such as “in” or “on”
- Knows pronouns, such as “you”, “me” or “her”
- Knows descriptive words, such as “big” or “happy”
- Uses 3-word sentences
- Speech is becoming more accurate, but may still leave off ending sounds. Strangers may not be able to understand much of what is said
- Answers simple questions
- Begins to use more pronouns, such as “you” or “I”
- Uses questions inflection to ask for something
- Begins to use plurals
4 to 5 years
- Understands spatial concepts, such as “behind” or “next to”
- Understands complex questions
- Speech is understandable, but makes mistakes pronouncing long, difficult, or complex words, such as “hippopotamus”
- Uses some irregular past tense verbs, such as “ran” or “fell”
- Describes how to do things, such as painting a picture
- Lists items that belong in a category, such as animals or vehicles
- Answers “why” questions
6 to 11 months
- Understands “no-no”
- Babbles (says “ba-ba-ba, goo-goo-goo”)
- Says “mama” or “dada” without real meaning
- Tries to communicate by actions or gestures
- Tries to imitate your sounds
- Says first word
18 to 23 months
- Vocabulary of 50 words, pronunciation is often unclear
- Asks for common foods by name
- Makes animal sounds, such as “moo”
- Starting to combine words, such as “more milk”
- Begins to use pronouns, such as “mine”
- Uses 2-word phrases
3-4 years
- Groups objects, such as foods or clothes
- Identifies colors
- Uses most speech sounds, but may distort some of the more difficult sounds, such as l, r, s, sh, ch, y, v, z, th. These sounds may not be fully mastered until age 7 or 8.
- Uses consonants in the beginning, middle, and ends of words. Some of the more difficult consonants may be distorted, but attempts to say them
- Strangers are able to understand much of what is said
- Able to describe the use of objects, such as “fork” or “car”
- Has fun with language; enjoys poems and recognizes language absurdities, such as, “Is that an elephant on your head?”
- Expresses ideas and feelings rather than just talking about the world around him or her
- Uses verbs that end in “ing,” such as “walking” or “talking”
- Answers simple questions, such as “What do you do when you are hungry?”
- Repeats sentences
5 years
- Understands time sequences (for example, what happened first, second, or third)
- Carries out a series of 3 directions
- Understands rhyming
- Engages in conversation
- Sentences can be 8 or more words in length
- Uses compound and complex sentences
- Describes objects
- Uses imagination to create stories