Cognition
Cognition refers to the way in which our brain remembers, reasons, attends, solves problems, inhibits, thinks, reads, and learns. A cognitive-communication disorder can encompass difficulty with any aspect of communication including both verbal or nonverbal communication, as well as disruption in the areas of listening, speaking, gesturing, reading, and writing.
Cognition
- SLPs can assist in identifying individuals at risk for, or presenting with, cognitive communication disorders.
- SLPs can provide treatment around education, empowerment, advocacy, self-control, and self-sufficiency as well as teaching compensatory strategies to support limitations.
- SLPs can help both children and adults who are experiencing a cognitive-communication disorder.
Language
“Expressive” language refers to the way in which an individual uses their words to share ideas, express opinions, advocate for basic wants/needs and to express feelings/emotions. Language can also include one’s ability to comprehend spoken language and the ability to understand others which is referred to as “Receptive” language.
Language
- SLPs can assist in identifying individuals at risk for, or presenting with, expressive and receptive language disorders.
- SLPs are qualified to provide evidence-based treatment plans in each of the five language domains (morphology/grammar, phonology/sounds, pragmatics/social, semantics/word knowledge, and syntax/sentence structure).
- SLPs can help both children and adults who are experiencing a language disorder.
Social Communication
Being a good social communicator requires several skills including language ability, social skills, social-cognition, and executive functioning (e.g., attention, memory, inhibition, and problem-solving). Social communication disorders can occur in individuals with specific language impairments, language-based learning disabilities, intellectual disability, traumatic brain injury, selective mutism, and Autism.
Social Communication
- SLPs can assist in identifying individuals at risk for, or presenting with, social communication challenges.
- SLPs are qualified to provide evidence-based treatment plans to support a variety of social communication skills.
- SLPs can help both children and adults who are experiencing a social communication disorder.
Speech
Speech refers to how we say sounds and words. Speech includes the area of “articulation” which is how we make speech sounds using our mouth, palate, teeth, lips, and tongue. Speech also includes the area of “voicing” which is how we coordinate our respiration and vocal cords to generate speech and lastly, speech also includes “fluency” which is the rhythm of our speech.
Speech
- SLPs can assist in identifying individuals with articulation or phonological disorders as well as identifying individuals with dysarthria and apraxia of speech.
- SLPs are qualified to provide evidence-based treatment plans suited specifically for each type of speech sound disorder.
- SLPs can help both children and adults who are experiencing a speech sound disorder.
Stuttering
Stuttering is a communication disorder characterized by various disfluencies that interfere with the forward flow of speech. It is more common in males and can run in families. Everyone has some instances of disfluent speech; however, people who stutter have more frequent disfluencies sometimes accompanied by a feeling of loss of control.
Stuttering
- SLPs can assist in identifying individuals at risk for or presenting with stuttering.
- SLPs are qualified to provide evidence-based treatment plans in the area of stuttering and cluttering including creating an open and safe space for the person who stutters to talk about their stuttering.
- SLPs can help both children and adults who are experiencing stuttering.
Orofacial Myofunction Therapy
Orofacial Myology is the study and treatment of Oral and facial muscles as they relate to speech, dentition, chewing/bolus collection, swallowing, and overall mental and physical health. An Orofacial Myofunctional Disorder exists when patterns involving oral and orofacial musculature interfere with normal growth and development.
Orofacial Myofunction Therapy
- Qualified Orofacial Myologist SLPS can assist in eliminating aversive oral habits.
- Qualified Orofacial Myologist SLPS provide intervention/exercises aimed at improving nasal breathing, establishing correct oral resting posture, reduction of tongue thrust, improvement of lip strength, and tongue function/strength.
- Qualified Orofacial Myologist SLPS can help with improving feeding skills.
