Areas of Speech & Language
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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
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- 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
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