Speech and Language Services are provided to students at Alden Primary School and Intermediate School who have delays and disorders in the following areas:

         Speech

• • Articulation Therapy - working to improve sound production
  • Fluency Therapy - learning skills and strategies to improve fluent speech/stuttering
  • Voice Therapy - working to improve respiration (breathing), phonation (producing voice), and resonance (nasality)

  Language

  • Receptive language - understanding language
  • Expressive language - application of language/using language to communicate
  • Cognitive aspects of communication - critical thinking and higher level thinking skills
  • Auditory processing skills - improve ability to understand auditory information and memory skills/how your brain interprets sounds you hear