Speech & Occupational Therapy of North Texas
Clinic Locations in Frisco, McKinney & Plano – and Serving the Surrounding Communities.
Pediatric Occupational therapists are considered early childhood specialists in their area of expertise. Occupational therapists who work in the field of early childhood help children develop purposeful activities (occupations). Feeding, play, interaction, and movement activities are examples of occupations for children. For young children with developmental challenges in these areas, it is important to have…
Pediatric Speech Pathologists are considered early intervention specialists in the areas of speech and language development. Early intervention is critical for children that may have a developmental difference or who appear to be falling behind their same aged friends in language understanding or in the development of clear verbal speech. Speech Language Pathologists who provide…
Speech Therapy, also called speech-language therapy, is an allied health specialty which addresses language and production aspects of communication. Speech and language therapy treats 5 domains; semantics, pragmatics, syntax, morphology, and phonology. Phonology addresses sound, with the smallest sound segment being a phoneme. Morphology refers to word formation, such as past tense or comparatives and…
Occupational Therapy, sometimes referred to as OT, is a health profession which assists individuals with motor issues and behavior challenges in mastering purposeful activities of daily living. Speech & Occupational Therapy of North Texas provides pediatric occupational therapy at its Plano and Frisco clinics. In our clinics, Master’s level occupational therapists with extensive pediatric experience…
Speech Language Pathologists will tell you that sharing books and stories with your child is an excellent way to positively impact language development. Your Public Library is a fantastic resource for your family. Did you know that many area library systems have wonderful Children’s Departments as well as regularly scheduled Story Times? Books are a…
A r y n C . S o l l a r s Patient Coordinator Aryn’s job is similar to Nancy Holmes’ job. She checks benefits, talks with parents about insurance, and interfaces with physicians and insurance companies to keep insurance working as smoothly as possible C a r m…
Mackenzie Stauffer, SLP Jennifer Sananikone, SLP Dianne Holt, ORR Susan Krejci, MS, BCMA and more
Early Childhood Intervention is critical for treating speech and language disorders as well as self-help and motor disorders in young children. Speech and language disorders are the most prevalent developmental delays during the first three years of life. Without intervention a child may likely continue to experience long term difficulties related to language (Lombardino &…
Normal Disfluency Between the ages of two and five, many children pass through periods of disfluency often referred to as stuttering. Repetitions, interjections, revisions, prolongations, and pauses are commonly heard during this stage of language development. When the average child is between two and three-and-a-half, disfluencies reach 10 per 100 words spoken, and may be…
I believe that most individuals on the autism spectrum have atypical sensory systems. We have five senses, and any, more or all can be impacted so that an individual with ASD perceives information differently from the “general population”. Individuals with autism spectrum disorders often do not pick up on extra linguistic cues, such as facial…