4/28/11

Treating More Than Stuttering

After 14 years of accepting only children who stutter, I am opening my practice to children with other language, reading and writing difficulties.

I treated a variety of pediatric speech/language disorders for many years prior to limiting my practice to stuttering. And I drew upon this experience often. My professional library grew to include books, continuing education materials, and therapy activities that assessed and addressed not only speech/language delay, but also voice production, articulation/phonological disorders, dyslexia, attention deficit, anxiety, executive functioning, auditory and visual processing, social/pragmatic skills and sensori-motor concerns. Most of my speech therapy for stuttering was combined with treatment for these other issues.

Now, I am looking forward to also working with children who do not stutter, but experience other language, reading, and writing difficulties. My speech/language therapy is based upon peer-reviewed professional publications and only supplemented by commercially published programs. Therapy sessions are designed with the needs and interests of each child and teen in mind. Parents are required to observe all sessions for elementary- and middle-school age children. Therapy is a family affair.

Our children and teens are facing increased academic pressures in the current climate of state-wide achievement testing. At the same time, shrinking budgets are restricting special education services. I specialize in working with the children who “fall through the cracks”, the children who do not qualify for special education at school, yet find academics a struggle.
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