At Talkative Tallahassee, we use an executive function framework to treat speech and language impairments. Click below to learn more!

School-Age Language Skills

Strong language skills are essential for academic success and positive peer relationships. We help students to develop:
  • Vocabulary
  • Grammar
  • Concept Knowledge
  • Phonological Skills
  • ​Auditory Recall
  • Comprehension
  • Conversation Skills
  • ​Pragmatic Skills

Literacy

Is your child struggling to learn how to read? It's easy to identify when child is has trouble with reading. But figuring out why they're struggling is essential. Some children have a hard time hearing and manipulating the sounds in words. Others find it difficult to recognize letters and words visually. Some children struggle with attention, holding information in their working memory, or self-monitoring while reading. It's important to understand why a child is having trouble reading in order to provide the right intervention.

We help struggling readers develop:
  • Phonological skills
  • Visual word recognition
  • Self-monitoring skills
  • Comprehension
  • Confidence with reading

Speech Therapy 

Our therapy approach aims to improve articulation and phonological skills by increasing a child's awareness and perception of their own speech. We teach the child to notice what is happening in their mouths and to tune into the sounds they are producing when speaking. We assist the child in learning to self-monitor and self-correct. Target speech sounds are quickly generalized when the child is able to recognize and correct their own errors.
Phonological Disorders:
  • Difficulty perceiving, mentally organizing, and producing the sound system of language
  • Consistent patterns of errors or sound substitutions in their speech
  • Can produce the correct sound when prompted, but consistently substitutes the sound in spontaneous speech
Articulation Disorders:
  • Child struggles to place their tongue, lips, teeth, etc. in the correct places and use correct oral movements to produce certain speech sounds​

Childhood Apraxia of Speech

Children with apraxia have difficulty with coordination, sequencing, and timing of the specific fine motor movements needed for clear speech.

These children may be extremely difficult to understand, especially when attempting longer utterances (e.g., multisyllabic words, sentences, conversational speech).

​Intensive speech and language intervention is often recommended. A communication device (AAC) is also sometimes recommended for children with apraxia to aid in language development and increase communicative effectiveness as speech skills continue to develop.