Pediatric Services
About Pediatric Services:
Thrive Online Speech Therapy focuses on natural environment speech therapy. This provides clients and their guardians with the strategies needed to help them thrive in using everyday communication. Listed below are examples of the pediatric services currently being offered locally in the Vancouver, WA area and online from anywhere in the comfort of your home in the states of Washington and Oregon.
Speech Sound Disorders
Articulation, phonological processing, dysarthria, or childhood apraxia of speech are some types of speech sound disorders found in children. Children may have one type or a combination of types of speech sound disorders. Treatment approaches will vary depending on the type of disorder or coexistence of speech sound disorders.
Common struggles for children and adolescents with a speech sound disorder:
- Becomes frustrated and/or upset when attempting to communicate
- Difficulty being understood by friends and family due to unclear speech
- Imprecise speech, inability to make or imitate certain sounds, and controlling rate of speech
- Low self-esteem and decreased willingness to socialize
A personalized speech sound treatment plan is created to help your child communicate with ease, reduce their frustration, and increase their confidence as a communicator. Additionally, a partnership between Mongoli, SLP, and parents/caregivers in the child’s natural setting empowers them in supporting their loved one in becoming a successful communicator.
Language Disorders
Language disorders are divided into two categories: receptive and expressive language.
Please note that children learning a second language or dialect are not considered language disordered unless they demonstrate a delay in their primary language or dialect.
Common struggles for children and adolescents with receptive language disorders:
- Difficulty understanding what is heard, despite having normal hearing ability
- Difficulty following developmentally appropriate directions, without asking someone for help or copying a peer
Common struggles for children and adolescents with expressive language disorders:
- Difficulty getting a message or meaning across to others
- Frequently uses generic words like “stuff” or “thing”
- Gives vague answers or doesn’t provide enough details
- May shut down, become frustrated, and/or cry when unable to express something clearly – these behaviors may be misidentified as a “tantrum” by others
Mongoli, SLP, provides language therapy using a holistic, practical, and engaging approach to evidence-based treatments. Through complimentary coaching at the end of each session, Mongoli aims to empower parents and caregivers with strategies and techniques they can use at home to support their child’s language development.
Social Communication Skills
Does your child or young adult have a known diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder, traumatic brain injury, selective mutism, or pragmatic language deficit? Individuals with these diagnoses tend to have deficits in social communication skills.
Common struggles for children and adolescents with social communication deficits:
- Difficulty reading subtle social cues, body language, and/or facial expressions
- Difficulty understanding tone of voice, sarcasm, and/or figurative language
- May not understand what others are thinking or how they feel
- May have difficulty identifying and managing strong feelings
- Desires making friends, but does not know how to develop and maintain friendships
Maybe your young adult wants to become more independent and wants to obtain a job, but has a difficult time answering abstract job interview questions. Maybe your young adult is learning to navigate social relationships at work or at college.
Children and adults can learn practical social communication skills and strategies to help them navigate confusing social encounters in their home, school, community, and/or workplace settings. Mongoli, SLP, works proactively with clients to develop and apply social communication skills into their natural settings through an evidence-based therapy approach and practical home assignments.