SERVICES

Serving clients of all ages in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Developmental Language Disorder

A disorder that makes using and understanding language difficult. DLD can cause challenges across many aspects of life including school, work, and social relationships at all ages.

Click here for a list of common signs and symptoms

RESOURCES

https://www.dldandme.org/

https://www.asha.org

https://www.asha.org/practice-portal

https://www.asha.org/clinical-topics

Articulation And Phonological Delays/Disorders

Errors of individual speech sounds, which can make speech hard to understand. Click here to see at which ages speech sounds are learned. 

Apraxia

A motor speech disorder that makes it difficult to speak. An individual  has difficulty saying sounds, syllables, and words. It is not due to muscle weakness or paralysis; rather, the brain has difficulty planning and coordinating all of the movements with the lips, tongue, and jaw necessary for speech.

Resources

https://www.apraxia-kids.org/

https://www.asha.org

Stuttering and Cluttering

For individuals who have trouble speaking in a fluid, or flowing way. 

Resources

https://www.stutteringhelp.org/

Voice Disorders

Affects the ability to speak normally. Can result for poor vocal hygiene, stress on the voice, laryngitis, acid reflux, paralyzed vocal cord(s), Parkinson's Disease, respiratory illness, and more. The individual's voice can be perceived as rough, hoarse, tense, strained, too quiet or loud, and/or the individual may have pain when they speak. 

Resources

https://www.asha.org

Specialties

Intervention Program Specialites:

  • Lindamood Bell Phoneme Sequencing Program-LIPS

  • Lindamood Bell Visualizing and Verbalizing for Language Comprehension

  • EmPower Method for Written Expression

  • Unlocking Sentences for Sentence-Level Comprehension

  • A Sentence-Level Framework for Written Language Intervention

  • Brain Frames for Language Comprehension and Organization

  • The Word Finding Intervention Program

  • Metacognitive Strategies for Auditory Processing