Speech Therapy

Articulation therapy - Disorders of articulation, or speech sound production, can be the result of the following:

• Delayed speech development
• Phonological disorders (a language difficulty that affects how one learns and organizes their speech sounds into a linguistic system. Phonological disorders impact reading and writing abilities.)
• Developmental apraxia of speech (a motor speech disorder characterized by putting sounds and syllables together to form words)
• Reduced oral motor function (weakened muscle tone that inhibits the ability to precisely articulate speech sounds)

Therapists at MPTC utilize a variety of special therapy techniques to achieve articulation goals. These techniques may include but are not limited to the following: oral motor exercises, physical prompting for restructuring oral muscular phonetic targets, sound discrimination, and increasing phonological awareness skills.