Speech
Speech Therapy
IMMEDIATE OPENINGS WITH SPEECH LANGUAGE
THERAPY
The Speech-Language Pathologists at Charleston Pediatric Rehabilitation evaluate children with speech, language, cognitive, feeding/swallowing, and auditory impairments and provides specialized therapy to develop overall communication skills.
Our speech therapists provide quality, professional speech and language therapy in an individualized and family-centered manner. Emphasis is placed on the client’s functional needs while utilizing innovative research-based therapy within the speech and feeding clinic. Consultation is offered in each of our three clinics and also various natural environments such as a child-care center and home settings.
Each clinic has qualified speech therapists and bi-lingual speech therapists who have experience in all areas of speech & language development.
TREATING A VARIETY OF DIAGNOSES
Including but not limited to:
Apraxia of Speech
Feeding/ Swallowing Difficulties
Fluency/ Stuttering Disorders
Receptive/ Expressive Language Deficits
Articulation/Phonology Disorders
Auditory Processing Disorders
Cerebral Palsy
Down Syndrome
Autism
Hearing Loss
Literacy
Please call 843-569-3033 with any questions regarding our treatment or referral process.
HEARING & UNDERSTANDING
- Points to a few body parts when asked.
- Follows simple commands and understands simple questions: Listens to simple stories, songs, and rhymes.
- Points to pictures in a book when named.
- Understands differences in meaning “go-stop, in-on, big-little, up-down”.
- Follows two requests “Get the book and put it on the table.”.
- Hears you when call from another room.
- Hears television or radio at the same loudness level as other family members.
- Understands simple questions. “Who? What? Where?”
- Pays attention to a short story and answers simple questions about it.
- Hears and understands most of what is said at home and in school.
TALKING
- Says more words every month.
- Uses some 1-2 word questions. “Where kitty? Go -bye-bye?”.
- Puts 2 words together (“more cookie,”"no juice”).
- Uses many different consonant sounds of the beginning of words.
- Has a word for almost everything.
- Uses 2-3-word “sentences” to talk about and ask for things.
- Speech is understood by familiar listeners most times.
- Often asks for or directs attention to objects by naming them.
- Talks about activities at school or at friends’ homes.
- People outside family usually understand child’s speech.
- Uses a lot of sentences that have 4 or more words.
- Usually talks easily without repeating syllables or words.
- Voice sounds clear.
- Uses sentences that gives detail.
- Tells stories that stick to topic.
- Communicates easily with other children and adults.
- Says most sounds correctly except a few like l, s, r, v, z, ch.
- Uses the same grammar as the rest of the family.