Overview of Conditions
CLK Speech provides help for people with the following underlying conditions that manifest in various speech-language, communication, and related challenges that are found under the THERAPIES menu item.
- Autism Spectrum Disorders/Asperger Syndrome
- Attention Deficit Disorder
- Down Syndrome
- CVA/Strokes
- Craniofacial Disorders (e.g. cleft palate)
- Myofunctional/Orofacial Myology Disorders
- Neurological Disorders
- Auditory Processing Disorders
- Learning Disorders
- Vocal Cord Disorders
- Developmental Delays/Disorders
- Undetermined Etiology
Therapies
LANGUAGE THERAPY
- “Late Talkers” / Language Delay / Disorder
- Social Communication / Pragmatics
- Higher-Order / Verbal Reasoning
- Aphasia
Speech Therapy
- Childhood Phonological Disorders
- Speech Sound Articulation
- Motor Speech Disorders
- Oro-Motor weakness
- Childhood Apraxia of Speech
- Dysarthria
- Acquired Apraxia
- Structural/Functional Disorders
- Myofunctional Disorder/Tongue Thrust
- Orthognathic
- Cleft Palate
Stuttering
- Early Stuttering
- School-age, Teen Adult
Learning & Literacy
- “Late Talkers” / Language Delay / Disorder
- Pre-reading development
- Reading Comprehension
- Narrative Development
- Written Language Organization
- Verbal Reasoning / critical thinking
Processing & Cognition
Auditory Processing
- Auditory Attending
- Speech Discrimation
- Figure Ground Discrimation
- Phonological awareness
Executive Functioning
- Attending
- Working Memory
- Time Management
- Planning
- Organizing
- Task Completion
Social Cognition
- Theory of Mind
- Reading body language / tone of voice
- Accounting for social contexts
- Determining other’s intentions
- Responding appropriately
Critical Thinking
- Cause and effect
- Inferencing
- Fact vs opinion
- Abstract reasoning
- Problem Solving
Voice Therapy
- Hoarseness (Dysphonia)
- Nodules / Polyps
- Muscle tension Dysphonia
- Vocal Cord Paresis / Bowing
- Irritable Larynx
- Hypo-hyper nasality
- Impaired Prosody
Oromyofunctional Therapy / Orofacial Myology
- Oral Phase Swallow / Oral Dysphagia
- Tongue thrust
- Establishment of proper oral resting posture
- Related speech therapy
- Oral habit / thumbsucking elimination
- Functional assessment of tongue / lip tie
- Pre/post treatment of frenectomy