Developing communication skills is one of the most important elements to socializing and creating valuable relationships. For the child faced with speech impairments, it is necessary to provide strategies and resources that will assist with daily communication with the child's parents, siblings, teachers and friends. Our speech-language pathologists' goal is to help children to become successful communicators and independent language learners. This is achieved by tailoring programs specific to each child's needs in any or all of the following areas:

• Expressive language skills
  
  
• Receptive language skills
  
  
• Speech production/ articulation skills
  
  
• Social skills
  
  
• Feeding and swallowing
  
  
• Oral motor skills
  
  
• Disorders of voice
  
  
• Disorders of fluency
  
  
• Augmentative and alternative communication skills
  
  
• Pragmatic Skills
  
  

In realizing the importance of providing our young clients with care from highly trained professionals, our therapists are all licensed and certified by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Pediatric Therapy Network's Speech-Language department is continually developing appropriate programs that will supplement individual therapy and as such, provide more opportunities to develop strong communication and language skills.