SPEECH-LANGUAGE THERAPY

OUR SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGISTS HELP CHILDREN IMPROVE THEIR COMMUNICATION SKILLS SO THAT THEY CAN COMMUNICATE EFFECTIVELY WITH THEIR PEERS, FAMILY, AND FRIENDS.

Our Speech & Language Professionals provide pediatric speech-language therapy services to children by helping promote communication and independence thus encouraging children with the skills needed to live life to its fullest. Through therapeutic services provided by their provider, your child can improve skills to communicate with family, friends, teachers, and peers.

Bilingual (Spanish) & Tele-speech services are available!

Special Programs

It Takes Two to Talk - Hanen Program

The Hanen approach has led the way in changing early language intervention by putting parents first in order to help children. The Hanen approach advocates that the natural environment is the best way for children to learn, providing them with opportunities to communicate with key people in their lives. This approach has led the way in changing early language intervention by putting parents first in order to help children.

Social Thinking

Our therapists utilize the Social thinking curriculum by Michelle Garcia Winner in both individual and group sessions to facilitate improved social/pragmatic skills. The curriculum is intended for students with social learning disabilities, especially those with autistic spectrum conditions. Its main focus is on teaching students to think about how others perceive them.

Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS)

PECS is a unique alternative/augmentative communication system developed in the USA in 1985 by Andy Bondy, Ph.D., and Lori Frost, MS, CCC-SLP. PECS was first implemented with pre-school students diagnosed with autism at the Delaware Autism Program. Since then, PECS has successfully been implemented worldwide with thousands of learners of all ages who have various cognitive, physical and communication challenges.

PROMPT

PROMPT is a tactile-kinesthetic (touch and feel) approach to speech therapy. Because speech is made by moving the jaw, lips, and tongue, A PROMPT trained speech pathologist uses their hands to move the child’s lips, jaws, and tongue to correctly form words. These movements are combined with functional words chosen for each child to use in social interactions. PROMPT is used on a wide range of children who have difficulty with motor speech including children who have childhood apraxia of speech, autism spectrum disorders, dysarthria, cerebral palsy, acquired brain injuries and other developmental disorder of speech.

Early Intervention

Our therapists are trained in the “Coaching Model” utilized by the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare and complete home visits to help train families to improve their child’s communication skills

Teletherapy

Teletherapy: Our speech-language pathologists have been providing online therapy for over 10 years. We work with school districts and private clients connecting our clinicians with clients no matter where they live. Most insurance companies will pay for online therapy services. Contact CTP for more information.

Areas of Expertise

Autism/Asperger’s/PDD

Down Syndrome

Cleft Palate

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

Apraxia

Articulation/Phonological Disorders

Receptive Language

Expressive Language

Fluency

Voice

Social/Pragmatic Skills

Augmentative/Alternative Communication (AAC)

American Sign Language (ASL)

Executive Functioning

Reading Comprehension

Written Expression

Selective Mutism

Contracted School Services

Contracted Infant and Toddler Services

DISCOVERING ABILITY IN EVERY CHILD