Pediatric speech therapy
Individualized care for speech, language, motor planning, and multimodal communication—from toddlers through school-aged children.
Areas of support
Therapy goals are practical, meaningful, and built to support communication beyond the session.
Speech
Some children may have trouble producing certain sounds (like “wabbit” for “rabbit”). It’s a “how to say it” challenge. Other children may have phonological difficulties, so errors affect whole groups of sounds, like “tat” for “cat” or “poon” for “spoon.” It’s a “how sounds work together” challenge. Both are common and can be addressed with speech therapy.
Motor speech disorders may make it hard for some children to produce the movements needed for speech due to planning or muscle tone difficulties, even when they know exactly what they want to say. Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is a type of motor speech disorder where the brain has difficulty planning and coordinating the movements of the lips, jaw, and tongue. Children with motor speech disorders and/or CAS need frequent, specialized speech therapy and can make meaningful progress toward clear communication.
Language
Your child may have difficulty understanding directions and concepts (receptive language), expressing their thoughts and needs (expressive language), understanding and using words and their meanings (semantics), or using language appropriately in social situations (pragmatic language). Language therapy helps children improve comprehension, vocabulary, sentence length, and overall communication skills to support learning, everyday interactions, and social communication.
Gestures, signs, sounds, pictures, words, and AAC are all meaningful building blocks for connection. Therapy celebrates and strengthens every way a child communicates.
We offer speech and language assessment and therapy in both English and Greek. Evaluating children in all the languages they speak gives a more accurate picture of their skills, and supporting the home language helps build a strong foundation for communication in both. Being bilingual does not cause speech or language delays; it is a wonderful gift we love to nurture!
AAC & multimodal communication
Gestures, signs, sounds, pictures, words, and AAC are all meaningful building blocks for connection. Therapy celebrates and strengthens every way a child communicates.
Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) includes any tool or strategy that supports or adds to spoken language. It can be low-tech, like picture boards and communication books, or high-tech, like speech-generating devices and apps. AAC can help children who are not yet speaking, children whose speech is hard to understand, and children who have words but struggle to use them when they need them most.
Many parents worry that using AAC will keep their child from talking. Research shows the opposite: AAC does not prevent speech development and often supports it. AAC gives a child a way to be heard right now while we continue working toward their speech goals.
The Little Speech House does not currently provide AAC or assistive technology evaluations for obtaining devices.
What we offer
Services are selected based on your child's needs, goals, and the settings where communication happens.
Not sure where to begin?
A free consultation is a simple first step. We will listen, answer questions, and help you understand the options.
