There are many areas, diagnoses, and disorders that may benefit from the services of a speech-language pathologist. Family Chatterbox offers services not limited to but including the following areas:
- Articulation – How individual speech sounds are produced
- Expressive Language – The ability to express needs, wants, thoughts, or emotions, through words, pictures, signs, etc.
- Receptive Language – The ability to understand language
- Feeding – Both sensory and oral motor components of eating, picky eating, difficulty chewing, etc.
- Social Skills – The ability to interact, take the perspective of others, and understand unwritten social rules
- Fluency – Often referred to as stuttering or having difficulty producing fluent speech
- Auditory Processing – How the brain receives and interprets information that is heard
- Apraxia – Difficulty planning the motor movements of speech and transmitting the signal from the brain to the mouth
- Cognitive Impairments – Deficits in the ability to reason, concentrate, recall information, problem solve, and process ideas
- Voice Disorders - abuse and misuse of the vocal folds that results in trauma such as nodules.
"Family Chatterbox has been instrumental in helping our kiddos gain the skills they need. With the home-based approach we are afforded flexibility that truly makes things work in a way that cannot be duplicated elsewhere." -Jill- Minneapolis, MN
