Speech Therapy Orange County
Pediatric Therapy
We provide speech therapy services for children at the clinic setting, home, school, community around Orange County California, and telehealth.
Your child and family will get support from our Speech-Language Pathologists in speech, language, and communication. Including language acquisition and development, augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), use of social language, sound production, and oral motor skills.
We work and collaborate with many local pediatricians and consult with our multidisciplinary team to achieve your child’s goals.
We can help your child build new skills in the following developmental areas:
- Receptive Language
- Expressive Language
- Apraxia of Speech
- Swallowing
- Food Aversion
- Articulation and Phonology
- Oral Motor
- Pragmatic/Social Language
- Memory
- Cognition
- Auditory Processing
- Fluency
Got questions? schedule a free consult call with a therapist.
What is Speech-Language Therapy?
Speech-language therapy is the treatment for most kids with speech and/or language disorders.
A speech disorder refers to a problem with the actual production of sounds, whereas a language disorder refers to a difficulty understanding or putting words together to communicate ideas.
Speech Disorders Include The Following Problems:
- Articulation disorders include difficulties producing sounds in syllables or saying words incorrectly to the point that other people can’t understand what’s being said.
- Fluency disorders include problems such as stuttering, the condition in which the flow of speech is interrupted by abnormal stoppages, repetitions (st-st-stuttering), or prolonging sounds and syllables (ssssstuttering).
- Resonance or voice disorders include problems with the pitch, volume, or quality of the voice that distract listeners from what’s being said. These types of disorders may also cause pain or discomfort for the child when speaking.
- Dysphagia/oral feeding disorders, including difficulties with eating and swallowing.
Specialists in Speech-Language Therapy
Speech-language pathologists (SLPs), often informally known as speech therapists, are professionals educated in the study of human communication, its development, and its disorders. They hold at least a master’s degree and state certification/licensure in the field, as well as a certificate of clinical competency from ASHA.
By assessing the speech, language, cognitive-communication, and swallowing skills of children and adults, speech-language pathologists can identify types of communication problems and the best way to treat them.
SLPs treat problems in the areas of articulation; dysfluency; oral-motor, speech, and voice; and receptive and expressive language disorders.
Insurance Questions?
Tumble N’ Dots is not part of any insurance network however we do provide detailed superbills for potential reimbursement from your health insurance carrier.
We will provide a superbill that includes all the insurance codes needed to seek reimbursement from your insurance carrier but we do not bill the insurance company directly.
You can submit our superbill for a possible reimbursement from your insurance company for an out-of-network provider.
Speech Therapy is covered services under flexible spending account.