Speech Pathologists help children develop and improve language, communication, cognitive processing, and social skills. They evaluate and treat children of all ages with disorders ranging from mild delays in development to severe communication delays and syndromes. Treatment can be one-on-one or in groups and may involve augmentative technology or be facilitated with the use of sensory equipment. All therapies incorporate play and motivating activities with the goal of the functional use of communication skills in the child’s everyday environments.
Multilingual Speech Therapy Services
Speech-language intervention is available in English, Japanese and Mandarin Chinese at Bothell Pediatric & Hand Therapy. Our speech therapists perform language intervention for a variety of communication disorders including early intervention (late talking, functional communication), articulation, stuttering, and social skills.
If you would like more information on Japanese speech-language help , please contact us at (425) 481-1933 or e-mail Danny Miller directly at DannyM@bpht.com.
For more information on English or Mandarin Chinese speech therapy, please call (425) 481-1933 or to sign up, visit our Intake Forms page.
Therapy has helped Tasha become more independent and more aware of her surroundings. Speech therapy has helped Tasha with grammar, the sounding of the words more clearly, and also remembering the tenses. Overall, there is definitely a great improvement in every aspect of Tasha’s life!
– Shawn Burns, parent
Therapists at BPHT may incorporate Social Stories™into a group or individual therapy sessions as a way to ease the transition between activities or help explain unfamiliar social concepts.
- Alternative and augmentative communication: high-tech and low tech
- Articulation Delay (making sounds) and Phonological Delay
- Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Childhood apraxia/dyspraxia of speech and other motor speech disorders (e.g. dysarthia)
- Cleft Lip and Palate
- Cognitive communication deficits (e.g., memory/recall, sequencing
- Delayed communication milestones (late talkers)
- Early Intervention (birth-3)
- Feeding/oral motor difficulties
- General Language Delays (below normal language development)
- Genetic disorders/syndromes (e.g., Down Syndrome)
- Global developmental delays
- Hearing Impairments (mild to severe ear damage)
- Literacy development
- Narrative language (story-telling) challenges
- Pragmatic (social skills) disorders
- Receptive (understanding language) and Expressive (expressing ideas) Language Impairment
- Stuttering
- Tongue thrust
- Tongue – Tie
- Traumatic brain injury
- Voice disorders (e.g., hoarse/harsh voice, volume control, pitch)
Treatments May Include
- Language Development
- Articulation Therapy
- PROMPT
- Floortime
- ABA (Applied Behavioral Analysis)
- Augmentative Communication
- Social Skills Groups
- Parental Education
- Teacher Collaboration