Pediatric Speech Therapy in Houston, TX

We address articulation disorders and phonological disorders in the convenience of your own home.  Our training in myofunctional therapy provides us with a unique understanding of the muscles of the jaw, lips, checks, and tongue. This translates into more efficient and effective therapy. Weekly homework will be assigned in order to ensure carryover of skills throughout the week. Speech disorders can affect a child’s ability to communicate, decrease their self-confidence, and have been correlated with later language and reading disabilities.… Read More

PROMPT Approach to Speech Therapy

PROMPT is an acronym for Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets. The PROMPT Therapy technique is a tactile-kinesthetic approach that uses touch cues to a patient’s articulators (jaw, tongue, lips) to manually guide them through a targeted word, phrase or sentence. The technique develops motor control and the development of proper oral muscular movements, while eliminating unnecessary muscle movements, such as jaw sliding and inadequate lip rounding. Therapy begins by helping patients produce specific sounds.  Each sound requires different muscle contractions/retractions and placement/movement of the jaw, lips, tongue, and voice to produce. All of these things have to happen with the proper timing and sequence to produce one sound correctly. PROMPT  attempts to “teach” the patient’s muscles to produce sounds correctly by stimulating all of these through touch. Read More

Myofunctional Therapy:

Orofacial Myofunctional Disorders (OMDs)  are disorders of the muscles and functions of the face and mouth. OMDs may affect, directly and/or indirectly, breastfeeding, facial skeletal growth and development, chewing, swallowing, speech, occlusion, temporomandibular joint movement, oral hygiene, stability of orthodontic treatment, and more. Most OMDs originate with insufficient habitual nasal breathing or with oral breathing. The subsequent adaptation of the muscles and the orofacial functions to a disordered breathing pattern creates many OMDs.are disorders of the muscles and functions of the face and mouth.  Read more

Social Skills Groups:

“Talk & Play” Classes for Toddlers

 Want to learn expert strategies from a Pediatric Speech-Language Pathologist? The our “Talk & Play” class is for you!. This class is  led by a Pediatric Speech-Language Pathologist who specializes in working with toddlers with language delays. Learn more 

Feeding Therapy

The goal of feeding therapy is to help your child master age appropriate feeding skills while maintaining a well-balanced diet.  We understand there is more than meets the eye when it comes to speech and feeding disorders. We treat the whole-child and the complex interactions that result in feeding issues. Learn More

Yoga for Speech and Language

Yoga is also a wonderful medium for teaching other aspects of speech and language development, including language acquisition, vocabulary development, play skills, social skills, self-regulation, and emergent literacy. The Speech Dynamic has combined yoga techniques with speech and language development to develop unique programs for children. These program combine children’s yoga with speech and language development.