Weekly sessions are available on 30 minute and 45 minute increments. Location of service can be arranged with the therapist.
Services offered at North Seattle Speech include:
Articulation or Speech Therapy:
Our articulation and speech therapy program strives to help your child produce and shape speech sounds accurately. Children may substitute, omit, add, or change various speech sounds or entire speech patterns. For example, your child may produce “at” instead of “hat”, or substitute sounds that are made in the back of the mouth (i.e. /k/ and /g/) with sounds that are made in the front of the mouth (i.e. /t/ and /d/). Your child may present with a lisp or difficulty producing variations of /r/.
Language Therapy:
Language is composed of both expressive and receptive language. Therapy for expressive language focuses on your child’s ability to express their thoughts and feelings through communication. Expressive language also includes your child’s vocabulary and use of grammar. In contrast, receptive language refers to your child’s ability to attend to, process, comprehend, retain, or integrate spoken or written language. Accordingly, therapy for receptive language will focus on your child’s ability to understand language and follow directions.
Early Childhood Language Development:
Our early childhood language development program focuses on your child’s early developmental language skills (i.e. turn-taking, play skills, learning colors and shapes, counting, and letter recognition).. This program builds the foundation for the cultivation of children’s literacy skills.
Play Therapy:
Play skills are a very important precursor to your child’s speech and language development. Children actively improve their socialization skills and how to engage in cooperative activities through play. “Play” is an integral part of children’s speech and language development because it encourage language use and expands your child’s imagination. Children requiring play therapy may or may not have an accompanying language delay.
Reading and Writing Literacy Services:
Our literacy services support school-age children’s basic language skills through targeting and exercising reading, reading comprehension, and writing skills.
Social Skills Therapy:
Our social skills training program targets school-age children and adolescents to enable them to use their language, mind, and body to better communicate their ideas, needs, and emotions in a functional and socially appropriate manner. This program targets social thinking skills to learn the background of nonverbal language cues (i.e. gestures and facial expressions), identifying emotions, problem solving skills, making inferences, ability to take perspectives, friendship, and general conversational skills.
Accent Modification Services for adults:
Our accent modification services are offered to the adult population for those who may wish to eliminate or modify their native accent. Our accent modification services are individualized by analyzing to ultimately alter the oral motor patterns of the native language to English, to result in the desired production/accent.
Articulation and Speech Therapy for Adults:
Adults may continue to present with articulation errors that can either impact their intelligibility or cause undesired attention. The most common speech error that may continue into adulthood without remediation is the lisp. The sounds affected may include: /s/, /z/, /ch/, /sh/, and/or /j/. This program also targets adults who may wish to practice their enunciation and overall clarity of speech.