Also known as speech sound production, articulation is the way that we put sounds together to create words. On the average, by age 8, a child can be expected to closely match adult standards for consonant production.

If you are concerned that your child is having trouble with certain sounds that should be age appropriate, let's have a conversation.

Language is divided into two main domains: expressive and receptive.

Expressive language is the transference of thoughts and ideas via verbal speech, writing, gestures, body language, ASL....any way that a message can be related.

Receptive language is the opposite. It is the understanding of those thoughts and ideas via any of the expressive modalities.

Disorder may appear in any modality (speech, writing, etc) and in expressive language, receptive language or both.

Stuttering is perhaps one of the most misunderstood disorders within the field of speech-language pathology. While many children will experience dysfluency during the years of language explosion (3-6 yrs), some children will demonstrate a stutter that persists.

We will take a whole-person approach to stuttering and, as age appropriate, explore affective, behavioral and cognitive aspects to this disorder.

Also known as "higher level language", executive function is understood as the correlation between multiple cognitive processing concepts including: attention, problem solving, reasoning, judgment, inference ability, orientation and memory.