The ability to communicate is essential to learning, play, and social interaction. Impaired communication can affect every aspect of a child's life. After an initial evaluation and with your input, your therapist will set individualized communication goals.

Speech therapy addresses a variety of disorders and delays such as:

Early Language Delays

Receptive Language Disorder

Expressive Language Disorder

Articulation/Phonological Disorders (sound production)

Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)

Auditory Processing Disorder

Pragmatic Language (social language)

Oral Motor Skills for Speech/Childhood Apraxia of Speech

Cognitive communication

Fluency

And more!

Eating is a complex skill that involves the whole body working together to ingest, swallow, and digest foods for nutrition. Feeding challenges are often associated with medical complexities, oral motor delays, sensory feeding difficulties, and behaviors that may lead to disruptive mealtimes. Difficulties with eating may lead to poor weight gain, limited diet or intake, delayed development, and loss of general health and growth.

Should your child receive a feeding therapy evaluation? If you answer yes to any of these questions, your child may benefit from a feeding therapy evaluation.

Would you describe your child as a picky eater or as having a limited diet?

Do mealtimes feel difficult?

Does your child seem distressed at meal times?

Is your child uninterested in eating?

Does your child refuse to accept certain types or textures of food?

Does your child cough, choke, or gag while eating?

Does your child have a history of eating and breathing coordination problems?

Has your child had a traumatic choking incident?

Does your child have ongoing problems with vomiting?

Does your child appear to have difficulty biting, chewing, swallowing, etc?

Does your child have poor weight gain or persistent weight loss?

Is your child struggling to transition to new foods at an age appropriate time (i.e. transitioning to baby food purees, table solids, weaning from breast/bottle to a cup)?

After an initial evaluation, your therapist will set individualized feeding goals for your child. Rooted offers oral-motor, sensory, and behavioral-based feeding evaluations and therapy for children struggling to eat a variety of age appropriate foods.

Interested in your child receiveing therapy via a HIPAA compliant teletherapy platform? Please reach out to Anna to learn more about this option.