Pediatric Services | Elevation Therapy

Pediatric Therapy

Speech & Language, Feeding & Swallowing, Orofacial Myofunctional Disorders, Mommy & Me Classes

How do I know it's time for my child to start services? If you answer yes to any of the questions below, we can help your child's struggles!

Speech Disorders

Speech-Sound Disorders:

Does your child have difficulty saying specific sounds?
Are they unintelligible?
Do you frequently have to relay what your child is trying to say to others?
Does your child have meltdowns because no one can understand them?
Does your child substitute one sound for another? For example "tat" for "cat" or "wion" for "lion"?
Does your child omit sounds from words? For example "do-" for "dog" or "ba-y" for "baby"?

Fluency Disorders (Stuttering): an interruption in the flow of speaking characterized by atypical rate, rhythm, and disfluencies

Language Disorders

Receptive & Expressive Language:

Does your child have a difficult time following directions?
Does your child have difficulty identifying objects or pictures in a book when you name them?
Does your child respond to their name?
Does your child seem to understand spatial concepts, such as, "next to, beside, under, on top of"?
Does your child have difficulty answering "wh" questions or yes/no questions?
Is your two-year old combining two words (i.e., My ball, go cow)?
Does your eighteen-month old have at least 50 words?
Does your three-year old have at least 500-1000 words?
Does your child exhibit difficulty utilizing correct verb tenses?
Does your child exhibit difficulty utilizing grammatically correct sentences (i.e., Me want cup. Her reads.)?

Characteristics:

Does your child have difficulty latching to bottle?
Does your child fatigue easily with bottle feeding and/or at mealtimes?
Does your child have difficulty transitioning from a bottle to an open cup or straw cup?
Does your child have difficulty transitioning from bottle or purees to solid foods?
Does your child take longer than 30 minutes to finish a meal?
Does your child exhibit a wet, gurgley or raspy vocal quality during or after mealtimes?
Does your child exhibit coughing or gagging during or after mealtimes?
Do you often find food on your child's tongue or pocketed in their cheeks after mealtimes?
Does your child have excessive drooling?
Does your child exhibit difficulty chewing?

Characteristics:

Does your child have open-mouth posture?
Is your child a mouth breather?
Does your child snore at night?
Does your child exhibit a lisp?
Does your child have difficulty producing the following sounds: r, s, ch, sh, l, t, d?
Does your child have prolonged thumb-sucking or finger-sucking?
Does your child have prolonged pacifier or sippy cup use?
Does your child clench/grind their teeth?

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