Speech-language therapy helps children improve verbal, nonverbal, and social communication skills, making everyday interactions more functional, meaningful, and effective.
Every child has something to say. Speech therapy for kids with autism can help them find the most effective way to say it.
Communication is more than words. Success On The Spectrum helps children build meaningful ways to express, connect, participate, and grow through speech, gestures, AAC, and more.
Children often have needs that cross traditional therapy boundaries. Communication can affect behavior, daily routines, learning, play, and independence.
Speech therapy and ABA may coordinate around functional communication, communication during routines, independence, and using skills across different settings.
Speech and OT may work together when communication is connected to participation in everyday activities or other functional needs.
At Success On The Spectrum, different services can work together when appropriate for your child's needs. The purpose of collaboration is to create more consistent support around the child, not to make every therapy the same.
Speech therapy progress should be connected to specific, observable goals.
Progress should not be measured only by what happens inside the therapy room.
The bigger goal is whether your child can take those skills into home, school, relationships, and community settings.
Depending on your child's needs, progress may include:
Rather than focusing only on isolated speech skills, SOS looks at how speech therapy can help in everyday life.
Helping your child find the words for what they want, need, think, or feel.
Helping your child understand what's being said to them, like questions, directions, and everyday concepts.
Building the skills for real conversation, like taking turns, responding, and connecting with others.
Working on speech sounds when they're making it hard for your child to be understood.
Helping your child use their communication skills with different people, in different places.
Babbles and tries to imitate sounds. Can look towards the sound of music and other sounds. Can chuckle and laugh and vocalize excitement and displeasure.
Can use a word consistently like “mama or dada” and imitate more sounds. Will start to identify basic body parts, and follow simple directions with a demonstration.
Says or imitates 8-10 words and can attend to pictures. Can shake head “no” and follow 1-step directives.
Says 15-20 words and can point to pictures in a book when named. Can use words more than gestures to communicate. Understands basic questions like “Where’s your shoe?”
Uses 50-100 different words. Can match colors and answer simple “yes/no”, “what” and “where” questions. Can count to 3 Likes to play with other children.
Starts to use complex sentences. Sentences may range in 4-8 words in length. Can count to 10 and can talk about feelings.
Says all speech sounds in words and can name letters and words. Will follow classroom directions like “Draw a circle on your paper around something you eat.” Hears and understands most of what is said in home and in school. Can keep a conversation going with another person.
Personalized therapy services supporting each child’s growth, communication, confidence, development, and lifelong independence.
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Success On The Spectrum is a national franchise that provides ABA Therapy, Speech Therapy, and Occupational Therapy to children up to age 18.
Occupational therapy (OT) helps children to become more independent and participate in a wide range of activities.
Success On The Spectrum offers group social skills classes to promote growth in social connections and friendship skill.
