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You can contact us at any of our locations to set up an initial evaluation. We are a provider for many health insurance programs, but it is essential that you check your own policy to determine if a doctor’s order is needed and what your individual policy covers. For your convenience, we will submit your claims to the insurance company. A current copy of your insurance cards is essential to maintain timely and accurate communication with the insurance company about your claims. All co-pays and private payments are due at the time of your visit.
We accept cash, check, Visa, Mastercard and Discover. Associated Speech & Language Specialists is a provider for most insurance plans.
Start Here!
You can contact us at any of our locations to set up an initial evaluation. We are a provider for many health insurance programs, but it is essential that you check your own policy to determine if a doctor’s order is needed and what your individual policy covers.
For your convenience, we will submit your claims to the insurance company. A current copy of your insurance cards is essential to maintain timely and accurate communication with the insurance company about your claims. All co-pays and private payments are due at the time of your visit.
We accept cash, check, Visa, Mastercard and Discover. Associated Speech & Language Specialists is a provider for most insurance plans.
Does My Child Need Help?
Consider having your child evaluated by a speech and language pathologist if any of these characteristics are noted:
Does My Child Need Help?
Consider having your child evaluated by a speech and language pathologist if any of these characteristics are noted:
- you are concerned about any aspect of speech or language development.
- you are concerned about your child’s fluency.
- your child is frustrated or embarrassed by his or her speech.
- you have learned your child is hearing impaired.
- does not swallow well, has difficulty chewing, or has delayed oral-motor development.
- has a cleft palate.
- demonstrates neuro-motor impairment.
- has neurological or structural deficits that put him/her at a high risk for later communication or feeding problems.
- is not talking, has little speech sound play, or few consonants.
- has fewer than ten words, but has an advanced gesture system.
- does not respond accurately to short, simple directions accompanied by gesture.
- shows any of the previously listed problems
- has few words and is not obviously increasing his or her vocabulary.
- has many words, but is unintelligible, with very few consonants or a lot of vowel distortions.
- does not understand short directions or simple questions, or does not pay attention to talking.
- shows any of the previously listed problems.
- is very difficult to understand.
- consistently omits initial consonants.
- has excessive nasal tone.
- is not combining three and four words into connected utterances.
- still has a lot of jargon.
- echoes a lot and does not initiate many of his own utterances.
- cannot follow two-step commands or does not respond appropriately to who, what or where questions.
- has an excessive amount of dysfluencies and is showing obvious tension or actually blocks (freezes) on some of his sounds.
- has any of the previous problems listed.
- is hard to understand
- consistently drops word endings.
- has noticeably faulty sentence structure.
- has consistent difficulty pronouncing multisyllabic words and either mixes up the sound order or drops out whole syllables.
- is not able to relate events with good sequence and information content.
- has any of the previous problems listed.
- has difficulty following directions and attending to verbal information in a classroom setting.
- does not speak in complete sentences.
- has a harsh, hoarse, or unusual voice.
- has a suspected learning disability that may be language based.
- has any of the previous problems listed.
Does My Adolescent Need Help?
Consider having your adolescent or teenager evaluated by a speech and language pathologist if any of these characteristics are noted:
Does My Adolescent Need Help?
Consider having your adolescent or teenager evaluated by a speech and language pathologist if any of these characteristics are noted:
- Uses incorrect grammar.
- Has a poor vocabulary. May over use clichés, certain words, slang, or non-specific words (e.g. that, thing, stuff, etc.).
- Communicates adequately about concrete matters but has trouble with abstract language and ideas.
- Takes figurative language literally. Has trouble understanding jokes, sarcasm, riddles, puns, idioms, slang, and metaphors.
- Can adequately explain how something happens but has trouble explaining why it happens.
- Has trouble reading.
- Doesn’t seem able to follow directions when they are long and/or complex.
- Takes a long time to respond during a conversation.
- Tells stories that are unorganized and may leave out important information.
- Has trouble expressing his/her thoughts.
- Doesn’t ask the right questions to get the information that he or she actually wants. Questions may be too general. For example, saying “Did she leave?” when the real question is “When did she leave?”
- Stutters, has difficulties pronouncing certain sounds, or has a hoarse/strained voice.
- Doesn’t seem to understand or pay attention to norms of conversation, like taking turns, introducing topics of conversation, staying on topic, and ending conversations.
- Has difficulty accommodating the needs of different listeners and situations by using inappropriate language or tone of voice.
- Doesn’t pick up on cues from people’s body language, facial expression, or tone of voice.
- Attempts to avoid demanding language exchanges by appearing to “tune out” or changing the subject altogether.