Diagnoses
A neurological and developmental disorder that affects how people interact with others, communicate, learn, and behave. This disorders' primary characteristics are 1) poorly developed social skills, 2) difficulty with expressive and receptive communication, and 3) the presence of restrictive and repetitive behaviors
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
A treatment that improves your ability to talk and use other language skills. It helps you express your thoughts and understand what other people are saying to you. It can also improve skills like your memory and ability to solve problems.
Speech Therapy (ST)
This profession supports the emotional and psychological well-being of their clients through a variety of techniques.
Clinical Counseling
A disorder of the hearing system that causes a disruption in the way that an individual's brain understands what they are hearing.
Auditory Processing Disorder (APD)
This disorder isn't hearing loss or a learning disorder. It means your brain doesn't "hear" sounds in the usual way. It's not a problem with understanding meaning.
An injury or condition that affects how the brain works. It may be caused by a:
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
a genetic disorder caused when abnormal cell division results in an extra full or partial copy of chromosome 21. Characteristics of this disorder include mild to moderate cognitive impairment, language delay, affected short and long term memory, and varying physical feature differences.
Down Syndrome, copy of chromosome 21.
An allied health profession that involves the therapeutic use of everyday activities, to treat the physical, mental, developmental, and emotional ailments that impact a patient’s ability to perform daily tasks. Professionals in this area therapeutic techniques to improve, rehabilitate, or maintain a patient’s motor skills and overall ability to perform everyday activities.
Occupational Therapy (OT)
These professionals assesses an individual’s intelligence, aptitude, interests, abilities and skill levels in order to create and follow a career path.
Vocational Counselor
A group of disorders that affect movement and muscle tone or posture. It's caused by damage that occurs to the immature, developing brain, most often before birth.
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Signs and symptoms appear during infancy or preschool years. In general, cerebral palsy causes impaired movement associated with exaggerated reflexes, floppiness or spasticity of the limbs and trunk, unusual posture, involuntary movements, unsteady walking, or some combination of these.
People with cerebral palsy can have problems swallowing and commonly have eye muscle imbalance, in which the eyes don't focus on the same object. They also might have reduced range of motion at various joints of their bodies due to muscle stiffness.
a disorder for when a child makes predictable and typical patterns of speech sound errors.
Phonological disorder
A medical treatment used to restore functional movements, such as standing, walking, and moving different body parts
Physical Therapy (PT)
This area encompasses all of the ways that someone communicates besides talking
Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
A neurological disorder that affects the brain pathways involved in planning the sequence of movements involved in producing speech. The brain knows what it wants to say, but cannot properly plan and sequence the required speech sound movements.
Apraxia of speech (AOS)/ childhood apraxia of speech (CAS)
a disorder in which a child struggles to understand and process the messages and information they receive from others.
Receptive Language Disorder
Therapy that applies our understanding of how behavior works to real situations. The goal is to increase behaviors that are helpful and decrease behaviors that are harmful or affect learning.
Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA)
These professionals engage individuals on the topic of school and/or work, particularly competitive employment, educating them on their opportunities and the benefits of working.
Employment Specialist
A condition that affects how your brain processes sensory information (stimuli). Sensory information includes things you see, hear, smell, taste, or touch.
Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD)
This condition can affect all of your senses, or just one. SPD usually means you're overly sensitive to stimuli that other people are not.
Children may be oversensitive if they:
A genetic condition that causes a range of developmental problems including learning disabilities and cognitive impairment. Usually, males are more severely affected by this disorder than females. Physical features of individuals with this condition include long and narrow face, large ears, a prominent jaw and forehead, unusually flexible fingers, and flat feet.
Fragile X syndrome
A specialized kind of therapy that works with people, usually babies or children, to help them develop normal patterns and behaviors when it comes to eating.
Feeding Therapy
A condition that causes difficulty speaking as a result of some sort of damage to the brain. The condition can also consist of difficulty listening, reading, and writing. Usually occurs following a stroke.
Aphasia
A speech disorder characterized by repetition of sounds, syllables, or words; prolongation of sounds; and interruptions in speech known as blocks.
Stuttering
An individual who stutters exactly knows what he or she would like to say but has trouble producing a normal flow of speech. These speech disruptions may be accompanied by struggle behaviors, such as rapid eye blinks or tremors of the lips. Stuttering can make it difficult to communicate with other people, which often affects a person’s quality of life and interpersonal relationships. Stuttering can also negatively influence job performance and opportunities, and treatment can come at a high financial cost.