Speech & Language Therapy
Helping Children Find Their Voice, Build Confidence, and Connect With Others
Our pediatric speech and language therapy services are designed to help children communicate with greater confidence and participate more fully in everyday life. Using a personalized, child centered, and neurodiversity affirming approach, we meet each child where they are and build therapy around their unique strengths, interests, and needs.
We support a wide range of communication skills, including speech clarity, receptive and expressive language, social communication, fluency, and AAC. Together, we work toward meaningful, functional goals that help children express their thoughts and feelings, participate in conversations, advocate for themselves, build relationships, and communicate in ways that feel authentic to them. Whether your child benefits most from weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly sessions, our goal is to provide the right level of support at the right time - helping every child thrive as a confident communicator.
Our goal isn't simply to change how a child communicates. It's to help them feel confident, understood, and connected.
Speech Sound/Articulation Disorders
Speech and articulation refer to a person’s ability to produce specific speech sounds correctly. A child with an articulation (or speech sound) disorder is likely difficult to understand. Most children make errors in articulation while they are learning to talk. Many will naturally outgrow these articulation errors or error patterns. When a child does not outgrow particular errors or error patterns, he or she may be at risk for an Articulation Disorder. If articulation errors persist past the age of natural suppression, it is important for the child to see a Speech-Language Pathologist so they can learn the strategies necessary to remediate their errors, and improve their overall intelligibility (ability to be understood by others).
Common articulation errors include:
Substitutions: Replacing one sound with another sound. Examples: “wed” for “red,” “beet” for "feet" “dut,” for “duck”
Omissions (also known as deletions): Ommiting a sound in a word. Examples: “p-ay the piano” for “play the piano”, “g-een nake” for “green snake”
Distortions: Producing a sound in an atypical manner. Examples: frontal lisp for /s/, /z/
Additions: Inserting an extra sound within a word. Examples: “puhlay” for “play” “doguh,” for “dog”
To help determine if your child is reaching all of their developmental milestones, please references these charts shared by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (AHSA) which outline when children should reach each milestone.
Receptive and Expressive Language Disorders
Children with expressive and receptive language disorders have difficulties communicating effectively with others. At Ignite Speech, we value diverse perspectives, communication styles, and ways of thinking. We combine evidence-based techniques with a neurodiversity-affirming approach to enhance receptive and expressive language skills.
Expressive language refers to a person’s ability to use verbal or nonverbal communication in order to make connections with others and share thoughts, feelings, and ideas. Deficits in this area may include:
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Limited vocabulary
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Difficulty creating grammatically correct sentences
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Impaired sentence structure
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Inability to tell a story in order from start to finish
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Difficulty clearly conveying a concept or idea
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Difficulty recalling words
Receptive language refers to a person’s ability to understand the spoken language, or information being presented to them. Children with receptive language disorders may have trouble with any of the following skills:
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Following verbal directions
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Reading comprehension
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Understanding complicated sentences
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Answering questions
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Understanding the names of things
To help determine if your child is reaching all of their developmental milestones, please references these charts shared by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (AHSA) which outline when children should reach each milestone.
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Fluency Disorders (Stuttering & Cluttering)
A fluency disorder affects the natural flow, rhythm, and ease of speaking. The most common fluency disorder is stuttering, which may include:
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Repeating sounds, syllables, or words (e.g., “b-b-ball”)
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Prolonging sounds (e.g., “ssssun”)
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Getting “stuck” or blocked on a sound or word
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Physical tension or struggle when trying to speak
Another type of fluency disorder is cluttering, where speech may sound rushed, with skipped sounds or words, making it hard to understand.
It’s important to know that occasional disfluencies are normal, especially in young children as their language develops. A fluency disorder is diagnosed when disruptions in speech become frequent, noticeable, and begin to affect communication or confidence.
At Ignite Therapy Services, our speech-language pathologists provide individualized therapy to help children and adults:
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Develop strategies for smoother, easier speech
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Reduce tension and frustration during speaking
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Build confidence in communication at school, work, and in daily life
With the right support, people who stutter or clutter can become confident, effective communicators.