Speech therapy helps children speak more clearly and confidently. Jess has experience treating a wide range of speech sound disorders, including articulation and phonological disorders, as well as residual speech sound errors.

Therapy may include:

• Learning how to produce speech sounds correctly
• Practicing sounds in words, sentences, and conversation
• Developing the ability to hear and self-correct speech errors
• Building confidence and carryover into everyday communication

Jess has also completed advanced training in orofacial myofunctional therapy and incorporates myofunctional principles when appropriate to support speech production, tongue posture, nasal breathing, and oral motor patterns related to speech.

Language therapy helps children understand and use language more effectively. It may target receptive language (understanding) and/or expressive language (communicating thoughts and ideas).

Therapy may include:

• Following directions and answering questions
• Building vocabulary and sentence structure
• Using grammar correctly
• Storytelling and early literacy
• Social communication skills

Communication Milestones