Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Our Services
We provide therapy services to children of all ages with various delays or disorders, including:
Articulation and Phonological Disorders – A speech sound disorder occurs when sound substitutions or distortions continue past a certain age. Speech sound disorders include difficulty with articulation (producing sounds) and phonological processes (sound patterns). Old City Speech Therapy provides targeted and goal-oriented intervention to correct sounds that children have difficulty producing.
Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) – Childhood Apraxia of Speech is a motor speech disorder. Children with CAS have difficulty saying sounds, syllables, and words, not due to muscle weakness, but the brain’s ability to plan and coordinate the movement of the lips, jaw, and tongue. Old City Speech Therapy provides intervention that targets motor-planning skills in order to facilitate clear production of words of increasing length and complexity.
Expressive and Receptive Language Delays – Expressive language refers to a child’s ability to use words, sentences, symbols, and gestures to effectively communicate wants and needs. Receptive language refers to a child’s understanding and processing of information communicated from others. Old City Speech Therapy offers family-centered, play-based language therapy to help toddlers who are late talkers learn to communicate.
Expressive and Receptive Language Disorders – Language disorders include difficulties developing and understanding vocabulary, using appropriate grammar and sentence structure, difficulties with reading comprehension, narrative writing, and challenges with understanding concepts, following directions, and processing language. Old City Speech Therapy offers individualized services based on a child’s current level of performance.
Stuttering – Stuttering is a speech disorder characterized by repetition of sounds, syllables, or words, and prolongation of sounds. Fluency-shaping and stuttering modification techniques help teach children how to increase the frequency of fluent speech and increase their confidence when speaking. Parents are educated on fluency enhancing techniques for home carryover.
Autism Spectrum Disorder – Children with ASD often present with social-pragmatic language difficulties, such as difficulty interacting with peers, understanding emotions and feelings, and taking the perspective of others. Children with autism can also have other language-based difficulties, including following directions, understanding and asking questions, and initiating and maintaining conversations. Old City Speech Therapy creates intervention plans that are individualized based on the needs of each student.
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Where are services provided?
Old City Speech Therapy services are provided in a setting familiar and comfortable to you and your child. We offer completely virtual services, or we will come to your home, school, daycare, or community setting in Philadelphia and surrounding towns.
