Speech-Language Therapy
Speech-Language Therapy facilitates and improves language, oral motor, and cognitive skills. These programs help children who:
- Have difficulty with pre-language skills, including making eye contact or facial expressions, gesturing, babbling, or imitating sounds.
- Exhibit weakness or lack of coordination in facial and oral muscles necessary for speech and feeding by drooling, being unable to manipulate food while eating, or having unclear verbal language.
- Exhibit an aversion to specific textures or flavors of food/drink and may become frustrated when new foods are introduced.
- Have difficulty chewing, sucking from a straw/bottle, or frequently have food falling out of the mouth.
- Have difficulty producing understandable sounds, letters, words needed to communicate with others.
- Exhibit problems with receptive language such as understanding and following directions or expressive language such as putting words together or naming objects and family members.
- Have difficulty using appropriate behavior and language within social situations or understanding indirect requests and facial expression from others.
- Have difficulty with thinking skills such as remembering homework assignments, organization, and problem solving.
- Have difficulty with speech including articulation (clarity of speech) and stuttering.
Speech Therapy Team
Jennifer Garcia, MA, CCC-SLP
Jennifer graduated with honors from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Arts in Communication Sciences and Disorders. Jennifer has been in practice since 1995. In pediatrics, she has worked for Texas Children's Home Health Services and served as Director of Speech Therapy Services for Kid's Developmental Therapy. She has additional training in pediatrics in The Affect-Based Language Curriculum, articulation disorders, oral-motor and swallowing disorders, augmentative communication, and sensory integration. Jennifer has received intensive training in Dr. Stanley Greenspan's DIR®/FloortimeTM Model. Jennifer is a current member of the American Speech-Language Hearing Association.
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Mikah Montez, MS, CF-SLP
Mikah graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelors of Science degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders. Mikah received her Master of Science degree from the University of Texas at Dallas in Communication Disorders. She has participated in additional training for pediatrics in social communication therapy, sensory feeding therapy, swallowing, stuttering, and Dr. Stanley Greenspan's DIR®/FloortimeTM model. She has previously worked at the Parish School as a teacher's assistant during their summer program. Mikah is a member of the American Speech - Language - Hearing Association.
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