Services

Services Offered

Consultation

Consultations are crucial to identify the appropriate tools and components to include in an evaluation.

If you are interested in an evaluation or have questions about your child's speech and language development, contact us for a free consultation.

Evaluations

The length and content of a speech and language evaluation will depend based on the areas of an evaluation. Evaluations may include standardized, dynamic and criterion-referenced assessments, language and speech samples, questionnaires, parent reports and evaluations performed by other licensed professionals such as psychologists or other speech-language pathologists

Evaluation reports include the a case history, evaluation results, impressions, recommendations and a treatment plan with individualized goals.

Treatment Sessions

Treatment will depend on the treatment area(s), evaluation results, family and client preferences, and the amount of therapy required. The end of therapy sessions may include the discussion of progress or homework.

Specialties

Articulation

Articulation involves how sounds are produced in the mouth. Children who have challenges with articulation skills may have difficulty with a single sound or many speech sounds. Articulation errors can involve omitting, substituting or changing (distorting) sounds in unexpected ways. Other children may have a phonological disorder. Phonology involves the rules on how sounds are used in speech. For example, your child says /s/ in some words but not others speech becomes peech). Talk with Precision Speech and Language if you notice any of the following with your child:

  • Extended family find it difficult to understand your child.

  • Your child is difficult to understand on the phone

  • Your child is frustrated often because they are misunderstood.

  • You notice their peers of the same age have less errors.

  • Older children (5+) may replace one sound for another in writing (e.g., wif instead of with; wun instead of run).

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. The cities we cover include 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 ...................... $225

Therapy session (30 minute) ...... $55

Therapy session (60 minute) ...... $110