Pediatric Speech, Language,
and Feeding Treatment

Caring, results-oriented treatment for your child

When treating speech and language issues in children, expertise is essential.  It also helps to find a place where children feel welcomed.  At Alliance Speech & Hearing Center, we offer a caring, attentive environment with an emphasis on proper evaluation and state-of-the-art treatment.

Pediatric Speech and Language Evaluations.  Maybe your child isn’t meeting milestones as quickly as their peers.  Or perhaps a medical condition is interfering with speech and language development.  Whatever the source of your child’s difficulties, we offer comprehensive evaluation and treatment.  By reviewing your child’s overall development history, along with medical information, informal observation, and for testing, we develop a full analysis.  We then work together with you and your child to formulate the right treatment plan.  Stuttering and voice treatment is also available.

Auditory Processing Disorders.  We’re proud to be your area experts for the in-depth evaluation and treatment of auditory processing disorders.  Our innovative treatments are brain-based, meaning they take advantage of the brain’s neuro-plasticity.  With a blend of traditional techniques and cutting-edge programs, including The Listening Program® (TLP), Interactive Metronome®  (IM), and Fast ForWord®, the perfect plan is formulated to directly address your child’s specific needs.

PROMPT (Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets) for motor speech disorders including apraxia, autism, articulation impairments and other developmental communication disorders. PROMPT is a hands-on system of prompting speech that can be used on children of all ages who are not meeting their speech development milestones. PROMPT provides muscular restructuring of speech as a dynamic system. It looks at speech production in a hierarchy from Tone, Phonatory Control, Mandibular Control, Labial-Facial Control, Lingual Control, Sequenced Movements and Prosody. It considers Voicing, Timing and Duration, and the Integration of all of these systems.

Reading and Literacy Skills.   Poor reading skills may include difficulty sounding out words or understanding passages – but help is available.  We’re proud to offer options designed to treat your child’s specific needs.

• Lindamood Phonemic Sequencing Program (LiPS):  The LiPS program is designed to help children make the connection between sounds and written words.  This is called phonemic awareness.  When children understand how particular sounds look and feel, they are better positioned to understand those sounds and syllables in words.  By the end of the program, your child will emerge with improved reading skills and an increased interest in reading.
• Fast ForWord:  Help your child improve phonemic processing with a computer program that is used at home!  Appropriate for ages 4+, the program is closely monitored by your therapist and requires 5 days per week, for 50-100 minutes per day.  Typically, the program is completed over 4-12 weeks.  To improve leaning and improve attention, The Listening Program may be used as well.