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Let’s dive a little deeper into some scenarios.

Imagine attending an event or at home by yourself. You cough when you eat. For a moment you think, “This happens a lot. Is this normal?” The answer is no, it’s not normal. You might benefit from speech therapy. Now, let’s go deeper. Do you cough before, during, or after your swallow? You might think, “I don’t know.” But do you know who does? A speech therapist! A speech therapist specializes in evaluation and treatment of most swallowing difficulties. After you receive an evaluation, speech therapy addresses swallowing difficulties with an array of treatment approaches, individualized to your specific problem. Speech therapy exercises might include tongue and throat exercises, myofascial release therapy, neuro-muscular electrical stimulation, modifications or sensory activities individualized to you. Many social events are centered around food. Wouldn’t you like to attend a gathering without being the center of attention when you cough at the dinner table? Take action today and reach out to Speech Language Pathology of Missouri LLC for a free consultation. Seek expert advice from a speech therapist who will speak to you and determine if an evaluation is needed.

Or maybe someone you know is having greater difficulty with expressing their thoughts in conversation. Word finding skills and cognitive organization are in the purview of a Speech Pathologist Cape Girardeau Missouri.

When it comes to your child’s opportunities in life, you want the best for him or her. When a toddler develops speech and language skills, and he or she makes sound errors, it is seen as cute. Maybe he or she says, “lelo” for “yellow” or “wabbit” for “rabbit”. It is very cute when they are small, but when a child reaches school age, the sound substitutions or distortions can cause embarrassing situations with teachers, other adults, and their peers, thus affecting their social engagements with others.  If this just describes your child’s experiences, give your child the gift of confidence by contacting a qualified Speech Pathologist Cape Girardeau Missouri at Speech Language Pathology of Missouri LLC for a free consultation to determine if we can help your child’s speech sound productions. Children have plenty of wonderful moments to experience as they grow, such as speaking a few lines in front of an audience at a school program, enjoying their first phone call with a friend, presenting their first speech in front of their class, or answering questions at their first job interview. You want listeners to hear the amazing ideas and moments your child brings to the event. You do NOT want others to remember that moment because of a lisp, or that your child pronounced, “Mewy Chwistmas.” Although this is cute, it isn’t cute when your child is 18 and interviewing for colleges, going on a job interview, or asking out a person to go out for ice cream on a date. There is life long value in choosing a speech therapist who is passionate and dedicated to improving your child’s speech intelligibility. The solution to getting speech clarity starts with choosing the right speech therapist. You can trust a Speech Pathologist Cape Girardeau Missouri who has experienced listening skills to identify even the slightest sound distortions or errors with airflow, implement exercises and structured activities to correct sound distortions and provide you with functional carryover strategies to speed the process of improvement.  That speech therapist is found only at Speech Language Pathology of Missouri LLC.

When language skills are affected in school aged children, most if not all school subjects are affected. For example, when a child has difficulty answering questions, such as “what, who, when, where, how, why”, it not only affects reading comprehension, it affects social studies, science, even math comprehension. Receptive and expressive language skills are very important in all subject areas. First children have to be able to follow instructions, then they have to understand what question is being asked. To add to the difficulty of academics, such as reading, social studies, science, or math, your child may bring home a homework assignment that has unfamiliar vocabulary words. Not only might your child’s understanding of the question bring a challenge, but now the actual question has unfamiliar concepts embedded in them. Such concepts might include the grammaticality judgement and use of antonyms, synonyms, categories, or describing a noun, just to name a few. Wouldn’t you take comfort in knowing that your child could improve in their academic performance if you found a qualified Speech Pathologist Cape Girardeau Missouri to evaluate language skills and treat the breakdown in the language acquisition process? Contact Speech Language Pathology of Missouri LLC for more information. Contact Allison at slpofmo.com for a free consultation to learn if and how she can help you and your child.

Does your child have difficulty with reading, spelling, or has even been diagnosed with  dyslexia? As a Speech Pathologist Cape Girardeau Missouri we offer services to improve sound and letter association, phonological awareness, phonics skills, and reading comprehension. There are some children that have difficulty keeping up with reading skills in the classroom, but they do not qualify to receive support services in a school setting or you might be looking for additional services outside of the school setting. Language-based literacy therapy breaks down the underlying cause of your child’s challenges. Whether the causal factor(s) could be challenges with pre-literacy skills, or deficits with comprehension, attention, memory, phonological awareness, or even delays caused by online schooling during COVID, a Speech Pathologist Cape Girardeau Missouri can help! Once the deficit(s) are identified, speech therapy can build these skills for a lasting result, yielding positive outcomes in academic success and social situations.