Auditory Processing Disorders

Occurs when the brain has difficulty interpreting auditory information. The individual may have normal hearing, however, the brain has difficulty recognizing and interpreting sounds. When an individual has difficulty interpreting and comprehending language or directions.


Executive Functioning

An executive function disorder describes difficulties associated with goal setting, carrying out organized steps and modifying a plan to complete a task successfully. These skills are important for learning from past experiences and applying the knowledge in new experiences. Attention, memory, impulse control, organization, planning, and hierarchical thinking problems often described by parents and teachers as the executive functioning.


Early Intervention-Speech/Language Delay

When a child meets speech and language developmental milestones at a later age than is expected.


Stuttering/Fluency

Occurs when sounds, syllables, or words are involuntarily repeated or prolonged, causing a disruption of the normal flow of speech


Apraxia of Speech/Motor Speech Disorders

Refers to an individual who has difficulty producing sounds, syllables, or words. This difficulty is not caused by muscle weakness or paralysis


Social Skills/Pragmatics

Pragmatic skills refer to a person's ability to use language to communicate ideas, needs, and emotions in a functional and socially acceptable manner.


Autism Spectrum Disorders

Developmental disorders that can affect the development of social and communication skills.



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Articulation

Involves difficultly producing sounds. Various speech sounds may be substituted, omitted, added or changed. For instance, a child may have difficulty producing the "s" sound.


Expressive Language Disorder

Refers to the ability to express one's thoughts and feelings through communication.


Phonological processes

Involves patterns of sound errors. For example, substituting all sounds that are made in the back of the mouth (i.e., "k" and "g") for sounds made in the front of the mouth (i.e., "t" and "d").


Receptive Language Disorder

Relates to a person's ability to attend to, process, comprehend, retain, or integrate spoken language.


Phonemic Awareness

Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear, identify and manipulate individual sounds in spoken words; involves blending, segmenting and/or deleting sounds.