Treatments
Language Therapy
Adapt speech with Care provides customized language therapy that is adapted to the specific needs of each client with love and care. Language issues can affect people of all ages and abilities. People may have difficulties with language production, language comprehension even using language appropriately in different situations. Language Intervention is adapted to each individual's age, abilities, interests as well as their own goals for speech therapy.
Aphasia
Aphasia is a language disorder that can present after brain injuries including TBI and strokes. Symptoms vary based on affected areas of the brain but may include: acquired difficulties with finding and saying the right words in conversation, understanding people when they speak, reading and reading comprehension, number recognition and producing single words and full sentences. Other individuals may produce many nonsense words or sentences during conversation.
Language therapy can help adults with aphasia re-learn the functional language skills needed to help them independently and functionally communicate in a variety of settings.
Autism
Autism can affect an individual's ability to speak, communicate, understand and make gestures, relate to and understand others in conversation even their play skills. These limitations can negatively impact social and emotional well-being.
Language therapy can help children and adults learn the functional language skills needed to help them independently and functionally communicate in a variety of settings.
Conversation skills
Some people experience difficulties with conversation that can result from many factors including limitations in social skills, word finding, attention, language comprehension and more. Language therapy can help individuals learn and put into practice specific and individualized strategies to help improve their conversational skills.
Language Delays
Children who experience language delays may exhibit typical language development but have not reached the language milestones expected for their age. If not addressed, language delays can affect a child's academic and social development with effects that last into adulthood. Language therapy can help children and adults improve in their language skills, helping them with their overall social and emotional well-being.
Articulation Therapy
Adapt speech with Care provides customized Articulation therapy that is adapted to the specific needs of each client with love and care. Articulation therapy is provided for individuals with pronunciation limitations, unclear speech, difficulties being understood during conversation, and limitations moving oral structures to make clear sounds.
Accent Modification/ Pronunciation Training
People who have immigrated to different parts of the world may exhibit what others call "accents" that make them difficult to understand in the society they are living and working in. Individuals who exhibit what others perceive as "unclear speech" may benefit from articulation therapy which identifies the "unclear" sounds being made and provide instruction on how to produce the targeted sounds in a more native-like manner. This will improve an individual's intelligibility during conversation with unfamiliar communication partners.
Articulation/Phonological Processes
Children and adults may exhibit limitations producing sounds like L, R, K, F, etc., that make them unintelligible during conversation. Others may produce sounds in an atypical way that significantly impact their speech intelligibility.
Articulation therapy can help children and adults learn how to produce targeted sounds with improved accuracy at the word, sentence and conversation levels.
Dysarthria
Dysarthria is a disorder that affects the muscles in your mouth, head, neck and even lungs that ultimately affects individuals' clarity of speech. Articulation therapy can help people with Dysarthria improve their muscle range of motion and strength resulting in improved intelligibility during conversation.
Cognitive Therapy
Cognition affects language and language affects cognition. People need effective cognitive skills to engage in many daily activities. An individual's quality of life can be significantly affected by their limitations in cognitive skills. At Adapt Speech with Care, cognitive therapy is customized to the individual's specific needs, interests, and goals, thereby improving their overall quality of life.
Executive Function
Executive Functioning skills include working memory, sustained attention, starting and completing a task, problem-solving and mental flexibility. Having limitations in executive functioning skills can negatively impact much-needed skills such as reading, calculating, attending in a conversation and much more.
Cognition therapy can be implemented to help individuals improve the specific executive function skills they need to improve their quality of life.
Daily Living Skills
Cognition affects people's daily living skills such as reading and writing emails, completing a check, making and following a grocery list and much more.
Cognition therapy can be implemented in various tasks to help individuals improve the specific living skills they need to improve their performance in daily activities.
Stuttering Therapy
People who exhibit stuttering or more than average dysfluencies during conversation may experience negative views towards their speech and want to change it. Stuttering therapy can be implemented to help individuals with their actual dysfluencies and also their perceptions of their stuttering experiences.
Voice Therapy
Voice disorders can result from many factors including misusing one's voice, yelling too loud and often, medical causes, and physical causes. This can lead to various vocal conditions including vocal nodules, a hoarse voice, a breathy voice, low vocal volume, or strained voice. Voice therapy can be implemented to help individuals with various vocal conditions improve their vocal quality and use of voice.
Note*** Medical clearance and doctor referrals should be obtained prior to implementing voice therapy.
Reading Therapy
Many children and adults struggle with the decoding of words, fluently reading a text and understanding the text they have read. There are many causes of reading struggles including Dyslexia, Aphasia and lack of instruction. Reading therapy can be implemented for individuals who want reading instruction customized to their specific strengths and weaknesses.
Play Therapy Counseling
Parents and other caregivers with very young children (birth to 3 years old) with language delays or disorders may benefit from play-based therapy counseling. This therapy can help caregivers learn the tools that support and encourage children's language and literacy development in play as well as in daily routines such as brushing teeth, eating dinner, and taking a bath.