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Pediatric Speech Services

Helping every child discover and reach their highest potential is our passion!

Our speech-language pathologists have extensive experience with a variety of developmental delays, diagnoses and disorders.   We collaborate with the child’s parents to create an individualized plan for each child’s progress based on his or her strengths and developmental needs.   We tailor our play-based sessions to each child’s interests and provide on-going progress reports and home programs to parents/caregivers.  Services are provided in-home or at our therapy center in Pasadena.​

Our specialties:

  • apraxia of speech / oral motor disorders

  • expressive language delay and disorders 

  • articulation/phonological disorders

  • social/pragmatic deficits

  • orofacial myofunctional disorders

  • receptive language delay and disorders

  • feeding & swallowing (dysphagia) disorders

  • hearing impaired/cochlear implant rehabilitation

  • auditory and language processing disorders

  • fluency/stuttering disorders

  • specific language impairment

  • voice disorders

  • & more!

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Our highly trained feeding and swallowing therapists work with clients who experience a variety of feeding and swallowing disorders due to genetic, developmental, and traumatic causes.

Feeding/Swallowing Therapy

Early Intervention

Special Populations

Speech, language, feeding, swallowing and cognitive disorders may coincide with various other medical diagnoses.  Our trained clinicians have additional training to provide specialized treatment to children with metal diagnoses, such as: â€‹

  • Autism Spectrum Disorder

  • Down syndrome

  • Sensory Integration Disorder

  • Cerebral Palsy

  • Cleft Palate

  • Hearing Impaired & Deaf

  • & much more

Early intervention is designed for families of children birth-3.  Early Intervention therapy utilizes a family approach to teach caregivers how to best support their child's communication and physical needs

School-Aged Children

Often times, children do not qualify for the amount of services that they need through their school due to district regulations.  We serve all children with communication difficulties, including processing, articulating, formulating sentences and social communication.

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LOCATION - LOCATION - LOCATION

We will work with your child where they will be able to achieve the most success!  

  • Clinic

  • Home

  • Community (day-care, schools, library, park)

  • School

  • Telehealth

 Service Types

Screenings

Screenings are quick and simple!  A screening takes about 10 minutes as our therapist looks at general skills to determine if anything needs to be investigated with more detail.  Your child may pass the screening, not needing therapy, or they mail fail it, which tells us to get an assessment to confirm or rule out a diagnosis and develop a treatment plan if necessary.

Assessments

Assessments are conducted utilizing clinical observation of play and communication skills, standardized and non-standardized testing instruments, and parent interview as appropriate. Following this assessment, you will be provided with a diagnosis and with a formal written report, which includes a proposed treatment plan.  Every child is unique and therefore treatment plans are designed in collaboration with the patient/caregiver to fulfill each child's individual needs while also being guided by research and clinical evidence.

We offer both focused assessments and comprehensive assessments depending on your child's specific needs.

The impact that we have any every child, every family, and on our community is why we do what we do!  Click here to see what our clients have said about their experience at Expressive Connections!

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