Speech & Language Therapy, Occupational Therapy & Educational Services
Eagle River & Wasilla
It’s More Than Speech offers Pediatric Speech, Occupational Therapy and Educational Services with a team approach focused on functional outcomes, supporting our clients and their families.
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We work with children ages 18mo. to 18 years who are experiencing Speech, Language, Social Competency, Attention and Executive Function disorders. We provide in-person, one-on-one services and actively involve families in treatment to further support their child's skills in the home, school and community.
Articulation
Receptive & Expressive Language
Fluency
The formation of clear and distinct sounds in speech
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At 18 months a child should be 25% intelligible
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At age 2 they should be 50-70% intelligible
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At age 3 they should be 80% intelligible
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At age 4 they should be 90% intelligible
Receptive: The ability to understand and process directions, using different vocabulary and concepts
Expressive: Getting their message across to others to communicate wants and needs
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At age 1 child is speaking many single words
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At age 2 child is combining 2 words
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At age 3 child is combining 3 words
Speaking with continuity, smoothness, and appropriate rate/speed
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Stuttering: repetitions of sounds, syllables, prolongations of consonants, not for emphasis
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Cluttering: perceived rapid and/or irregular speech rate, atypical pauses
Joint Attention
We have to be able to join attention with another person
to communicate. Does your child attend to you? Do they imitate you and respond to
your voice? Do they enjoy
eye contact?
Play Skills
Does your child enjoy other children, play appropriately with toys, take turns, attend and stay engaged? Or, do they get easily distracted, frustrated, attempt to control play or are more interested in their own activities than other people?
Social Competency
Executive Functions
They are a set of mental skills that help you get things done. They are controlled by the frontal lobe of the brain and help you to manage time, pay attention, follow-through and self-assess. They require mental flexibility, self-regulation and self-control.
This skill requires a person to know how to share space with other people. Social interaction is not just about talking, in fact, more of our social communication is through body language, facial expression, figurative speech and inferring in the moment. It is very complicated. If you are not good at it, you can misunderstand and make mistakes that cause you problems in making or keeping friends, getting and keeping jobs and affect any relationship.