Speech Therapy

Some common signs that your child may benefit from a speech therapy evaluation are:

• Difficulty communicating needs and wants
• Language is unintelligible to most people
• Stuttering or language production is not fluent
• Pronounces sounds incorrectly
• Frequent ear infections and has required pressure equalizing tubes
• Limited play skills
• Uses a new word and then does not use it again
• Does not point to objects in books (you say, “where is the cat” and the child disregards the question)
• Repeats rote phrases or words that are not appropriate to the conversation (you say, “would you like to go to the park to play” and the child responds, “the park to play”)
• Problems with drooling
• High palate
• Speech does not change much month to month