Services

Using our mouths to clearly produce sounds and words

Articulation 

• Leaving out sounds ("ar" for "car")
• Substituting sounds ("wabbit" for "rabbit)
• Distorting sounds (making an "s" with the tongue sticking out or a "lisp")

Phonological 

• Patterns of speech sounds errors that affect many sounds ("doe tat doe" for "go cat go")

Motor speech 

• Speech problems due to muscle weakness 
• Difficulty planning the movements necessary to produce sounds (inconsistent errors or struggle to talk)

Rules for how we form, use, and understand words to communicate

Phonology

• Difficulty understanding how sounds work in language (skills necessary for reading and spelling)

Morphology

• Difficulty with rules of grammar and formation of words

Syntax

•  Difficulty putting words together to form sentences

Semantics

• Difficulty with vocabulary and word meanings

Pragmatics

• Difficulty appropriately using language in conversation and in social situations