Evaluations

An evaluation for your child can consist of a parent interview, review of provided documents such as audiograms or previous evaluations and goals, formal assessments, and informal observations through interactions and play. At your evaluation, your therapist will make recommendations for your child’s therapy and work with you to ensure the perfect Plan of Care for your child and your family.

Listening

  • Interpretation of audiograms and the result’s impact on your child’s listening skills and associated communication

  • Informal assessment of your child’s current listening skills through parent questionnaire and responses to sound

  • Use of Ling-Madell-Hewitt Test to understand your child’s detection and perception of sounds in the speech spectrum

Receptive and Expressive Language

  • Formal speech assessment of your child’s receptive and expressive language skills 

  • Informal observations of your child’s language skills or areas of weakness

  • Any difficulty with play or social skills 

  • Your child’s utterance length (MLU) and comprehension of directions

Articulation

  • Formal speech assessment of your child’s sound inventory 

  • Informal observations of your child’s inventory and error patterns

  • Identification of level of complexity breakdowns occur (sound level, word level, phrase level, sentence level, conversation level)

  • Overall intelligibility

  • Oral Mechanism Exam

Fluency

  • Conversational assessment during play or reading activities

  • Assessment of the frequency, severity and types of dysfluencies your child exhibits

  • You may be asked to provide recordings of your child in their natural and most comfortable environment

Pediatric Speech and Language Therapy

Articulation and Phonology

  • Articulation or speech sound errors are incorrect productions of typically developing speech sounds

  • Phonological patterns can occur when a child “learns the rules of sound development incorrectly”. Instead of having a single sound in error, a child may incorrectly produce a group of sounds in the same category

  • Errors in speech sounds can impact your child’s ability to be understood or their “intelligibility”

  • Therapy may consist of a variety of treatment strategies to address your child’s sound errors or phonological patterns

  • Creation and implementation of personalized and functional goals to improve your child’s pronunciation and overall intelligibility

Receptive and Expressive Language

  • Expressive Language errors can look like your child struggling to use pronouns, mixing up tense, or using language that is deemed immature for their age

  • Receptive language errors may seem like your child can’t understand directions you give them, participate in appropriate play or comprehend conversations   

  • Therapy may include ways to teach grammar concepts, comprehension of basic concepts and following directions

  • Creation and implementation of personalized and functional goals to improve your child’s language skills and ability to communicate with others

Fluency

  • Fluency errors can seem like your child repeats sounds, words or interjections over and over again

  • Sometimes children will get “stuck” and sounds or certain words won’t come out when they try to talk

  • Children may struggle to find words they want to use and may “talk around” words that feel difficult 

  • Certain children may exhibit grimacing or facial twitching during stuttering moments

  • Therapy may consist of teaching strategies to help during a stuttering moment, parent coaching to provide constructive feedback and activities to help children feel like they can control dysfluencies

Sessions can be play-based, structured or a combination of the two in order to best address your child’s errors and the way they learn the best.

Auditory-Verbal Therapy/Listening and Spoken Language Therapy

  • Auditory-verbal therapy is a parent-coaching-based therapy structure that addresses your child’s specific hearing loss and their communication skill development

  • Therapy is considered “dynamic intervention” and includes parent feedback or concerns that may drive a session’s activities

  • The therapist will interact with the caregiver and patient to teach a variety of appropriate strategies and address specific patient goals

  • Sessions can be play-based, structured or a combination of the two in order to best address your child’s errors and the way they learn the best

Parent Coaching

Life is busy. Finding time to set up opportunities to practice communication skills at home can seem overwhelming! At Love to Listen Therapy, we are here to help.

Parent Coaching is a part of your skilled intervention session that targets ways to improve your confidence by using and incorporating learned strategies for communication skill development.

Your therapist will collaborate with you to identify personalized ways you can infuse these strategies into your daily routines to enhance your child’s communication progress.

Learn to feel confident being your child’s therapist. As your child’s personal expert, you are the best resource on their “team” and have a tremendous impact on their success in skill development. Let Love to Listen guide you in becoming the best interventionist for your child.

  •  Virtual Services

  • Clinic- Based Services

Mentorship and Consulting

AG Bell Listening and Spoken Language Mentorship

Professional education for therapists

  • Love to Listen Therapy can provide professional education opportunities for those working with the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing population.

  • Contact us today to discuss your education needs

  • ASHA/Texas Licensing CEUs pursued upon request for an additional fee

Speaking engagements

  • ASHA

  • TSHA

  • AG Bell

  • Parent Groups

 Do you think your child might benefit from some skilled therapy intervention? Contact Love to Listen Therapy today for your child’s personalized evaluation!