SPEECH THERAPY

  • Speech Sound Therapy

    Help children produce speech sounds clearly and accurately, which can lead to better communication. Press therapy uses several evidence-based approaches to articulation therapy, depending on the child’s specific needs, age, and type of speech sound errors.

    • Traditional Articulation Approach

    • Cycles Approach

    • Minimal Pairs

    • Maximal Oppositions

    • Multisensory Cueing

    • Core Vocabulary Approach

    • Complexity Approach

    • Integral Stimulation

  • Voice Therapy

    Addresses voice quality issues like hoarseness, pitch, or volume through exercises and vocal hygiene practices. The following issues can be addressed at Press Therapy:

    • Hoarseness or Raspy Voices

    • Vocal Nodules

    • Chronic Coughing or Throat Clearing

    • Voice Strain or Fatigue

    • Breathy, Strained or Pitchy Voice

    • Vocal Cord Paralysis or Paresis

    • Developmental or Neurological Conditions

    • Voice Changes After Illness or Surgery

    • VPI (Velopharyngeal Insufficiency)

  • Fluency

    Aims to address stuttering or other speech disfluencies by teaching techniques to manage the flow of speech. The following are therapies utilized at Press Therapy

    • Fluency Shaping Therapy

    • Stuttering Modification Therapy

    • Integrated (Hybrid Approaches)

    • Assistive Devices/Technology

Speech Sound Development

2-3 Years

p, b, m, d, n, h, t, k

g, w, ng, f, y

5 Years

r, zh, th (voiced)

4 Years

l, j, ch, s, v

sh, z

6 Years

th (voiceless)

Average age children learn to pronounce English consonants correctly

(Based on 15 English speech acquisition studies compiled by McLeod and Crowe, 2018)

SPeECH THERAPY

Press Therapy SLPs will select treatment goals, strategies & an approach that will be curated & grow with YOUR child!

SPEECH SOUND THERAPY

  • Articulation

    Focus on errors (i.e. distortions and substitutions) in production of individual speech sounds

    EXAMPLE: “wed” for “red”

  • Phonological

    Focus on predictable, rule-based errors (i.e. fronting, stopping, and final consonant deletion) that affect more than one sound.

    EXAMPLE: “tootie” for “cookie” and “do” for “go”

  • Organic

    Motor/neurological disorders (childhood apraxia of speech and dysarthria)

    Structural abnormalities (cleft lip/palate and other structural deficits or anomalies)

    Sensory/perceptual disorders (hearing loss)

    EXAMPLE: “bipem” for “kitchen”

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