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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.

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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: