Speech-Language Therapy | Heartspring Pediatric Clinic

Heartspring speech-language therapist and client in an early intervention therapy session

Our pediatric speech-language pathologists use fun, tailored activities to help develop children’s speech sounds, language comprehension, sentence structure, and more, empowering kids to communicate and connect with others.

What is Speech-Language Therapy?

Speech-language therapy helps children build the necessary skills to clearly communicate with others, express their needs, and understand directions or interactions. Our SLPs address:

Speech

Help your child communicate specific sounds they struggle with more clearly.

Language

Tailored interventions build the skills your child needs to understand others and express themselves.

Social Communication

Nurture effective social exchanges and improve interactions with peers.

Fluency

We’ll work on developing a smoother, confident speech pattern to enhance your child’s everyday interactions.

Could Any of These Speech-Language Diagnoses Apply to Your Child?

Our team of multidisciplinary therapists identify communication disorders or delays and help families navigate treatment options. Early intervention can significantly improve outcomes for children with language disorders.

Developmental Delay

Delays occur when a child doesn't reach the expected communication skills milestones, potentially affecting their ability to speak, understand, and use language effectively.

Receptive/Expressive Language Delay

With a delay, late-talkers or children who struggle to follow directions can develop their communication skills and catch up to their peers.

Receptive/Expressive Language Disorder

A child may struggle to understand and process the messages and information they receive from others, find the right words or speak appropriately, or a combination of both.

Phonological Disorder

Children may use simplifications or substitutions for sounds if they have difficulty understanding the rules of sound production.

Stuttering/Fluency Disorder

Repeating sounds, syllables, or words, prolongations, or blocks, characterize this speech disorder. Due to the frustrating involuntary interruptions in the normal flow of speech, children can also experience physical tension and anxiety around speaking.

Articulation

This speech sound disorder involves difficulty producing specific speech sounds correctly. Children may substitute, omit, add, or distort speech sounds.

Childhood Apraxia of Speech

This neurological disorder impacts the brain's ability to plan and sequence movements, which can effect the motor planning for speech sounds.

Auditory Processing Disorder

With APD, children can hear sounds but they struggle to understand speech in noisy environments or with rapid speech around them. They may have trouble following complex directions, distinguishing between similar-sounding words, or frequently ask for repetition or clarification.

Our Therapeutic Approaches

We tailor our evaluations and therapeutic interventions to every child.

PROMPT

Hands-on guidance to improve articulation.

Augmentative & Alternative Communication (AAC)

We help children obtain and optimize AAC systems and devices so they can successfully communicate without using their voice.

Bilingual Language Development Therapy

Improving communication sounds and skills while managing dual language demands.

Beckman Oral Motor

Targeted techniques to refine difficult speech skills.

Buffalo

Playful, tactile techniques designed to guide progress — even when refining speech patterns feels overwhelming.

Kaufman

Systematic approach with step-by-step strategies to gently enhance speech and language abilities.

Dynamic Temporal and Tactile Cueing (DTTC)

Integrates touch and timing to improve the brain's ability to plan and program movements for speech.

Our Speech-Language Pathologists

Every Heartspring SLP holds a Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA).