Services

Consultation

Where do we start? A free consultation will help us determine your child’s  needs and whether an evaluation is the right next step.

Evaluations

Evaluations include a combination of standardized and informal testing, speech and language samples, observations, and parent interviews. Afterward, you’ll receive a detailed report with results and recommendations to guide your child’s treatment plan.

Therapy Sessions

Therapy is tailored to your child’s specific needs and goals. We balance researched-based techniques with their interests to build lasting skills. Sessions include real-time feedback, engaging practice, and ideas for home practice.

Specialties

Speech Sound Disorder

Some children have difficulty saying certain sounds clearly. This could be due to an articulation disorder or a phonological disorder. Articulation involves how we physically form sounds with our mouth, while phonology  is how we understand and use sounds in speech. Oftentimes, children have a combination of both. If your child is hard to understand, especially to people outside your immediate family, we’re here to help. Give us a call to see how speech therapy can support clearer speech.

Receptive Language

Receptive language is the ability of a child to combine their knowledge of vocabulary, sentence structure (grammar) and memory to create an understanding of what they hear or read. Children who have difficulty with receptive language skills may have challenges with one or a combination of all of the above areas. Some signs of difficulty with receptive language include:

  • inability to follow instruction without repetition or visual cues (such as pointing, holding an object, etc.).

  • Answering questions incorrectly

  • Repeating part of what you say

  • Understanding short sentences but not age-appropriate longer sentences.

Expressive Language

Expressive language is a child’s ability to combine their knowledge of words and sentence structure (grammar) to communicate their thoughts, feelings and ideas. This is different from speech, which involves the production of speech sounds. Children with delays in expressive language may:

  • Have grammar errors (ends of words are missing, incorrect word order, words are missing from sentences)

  • Have short and choppy sentences for their age

  • Have a small or weak vocabulary compared to peers

  • Not using words by 12-18 months

  • Not combing words by 24 months

Apraxia of Speech

Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) is a motor speech disorder caused by the brain's inability to coordinate muscle movements for speech in children. CAS occurs even though a child having the physical ability to move their mouth. The It's as if the brain knows what it wants to say, but can't properly plan and direct the movements needed to make the sounds.

Phonological Awareness

Phonological awareness skills encompass a child's recognition and manipulation of sounds within spoken language. These skills are fundamental to the development of reading and spelling in children. These skills are unlike phonics, which involves the relationship between sounds and their corresponding letters. Phonological awareness skills focus on the sounds in spoken language. These skills are a critical component to learn to read successfully. There are several key abilities which build upon the other in complexity. These aspects of phonological awareness include:

  • Rhyming

  • Separating words into syllables

  • Separating the beginning (onset) from end (rime) of words

  • Identifying individual sounds in words

  • Blending sounds into words

  • Breaking down words into sounds

  • Changing sounds in words

Children who have issues with phonological awareness skills are at an increased risk to develop a reading disorder later in their education.

Reading Disability

A reading disorder is defined as a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition, poor spelling and decoding abilities, and challenges in reading comprehension. Children with a reading disorder may have trouble with:

  • learning to read

  • recognizing simple words

  • reading slow and laboriously

  • understanding the meaning of what is read.

Reading disorders can be categorized into several types, with dyslexia being the most well-known. Dyslexia specifically refers to difficulties in accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. In other instances, children have deficits with receptive language that impact their ability to understand what they read while others have challenges in both sounding out words and understanding what they are reading.

Service Areas

We provide home visits for evaluations and therapy sessions all over the south end of the Salt Lake Valley. We proudly serve South Jordan, Riverton, Bluffdale, Herriman, Draper, Sandy, West Jordan, Midvale and Taylorsville.

 

Pricing

Precision Speech Therapy currently accepts private pay. Your current insurance provider may accept a superbill. A superbill may allow for you to receive reimbursement for services you pay out of pocket to Precision Speech and Language Therapy. 

Payment may be made through cash, check, debit/credit card, HSA cards.

Please refer to below for an itemized fee schedule for private pay.

Phone consultations ................... Free

Evaluation session ...................... $230

Therapy session (30 minute) ...... $60

Therapy session (45 minute) …... $88

Therapy session (60 minute) ...... $115