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Speech and Language Disorders
Speech Sound Disorders
At Guinning Therapy LLC, our articulation speech therapy helps children improve the clarity of their speech by focusing on the accurate production of sounds. Whether your child is struggling with specific sounds like “r,” “s,” “l,” or “th,” or you're an adult looking to enhance speech precision, our licensed speech-language pathologists create personalized therapy plans to meet each client’s unique needs.
Expressive Language Disorders
Expressive language therapy helps children and adults improve their ability to express thoughts, ideas, and feelings clearly and effectively. Expressive language skills are crucial for speaking, writing, asking questions, and participating in conversations. We create personalized therapy plans focused on building vocabulary, improving sentence structure, enhancing storytelling abilities, and boosting overall communication confidence.
Receptive Language Disorders
Receptive language therapy helps children and adults improve their ability to understand spoken and written language. Receptive language skills are essential for following directions, processing information, and engaging in everyday communication. If your child has difficulty understanding questions, stories, or instructions, our experienced speech-language pathologists are here to help.
Through individualized therapy sessions, we target language comprehension, vocabulary development, and listening skills using engaging, research-based techniques tailored to each client’s needs. We work closely with families to ensure progress carries over into school, home, and social settings.
Disfluency
Stuttering involves frequent and different types of speech disfluencies, such as repeating parts of words, stretching sounds for a long time, or getting stuck when starting or continuing a word. Along with speech disruptions, stuttering often brings tension, frustration, and negative feelings about speaking.
Many people who stutter may try to hide their speech difficulties by avoiding certain words or situations, like making phone calls or speaking in public. Stuttering patterns can vary daily—some days speech may be more fluent, while other days stress, excitement, or fatigue can increase stuttering.
Our experienced speech-language pathologists use evidence-based techniques to help individuals improve fluency, build confidence, and reduce the emotional impact of stuttering.
We also offer support for individuals who clutter. Cluttering is a fluency disorder where speech may be unusually fast, disorganized, or difficult to understand. Unlike stuttering, the disfluencies in cluttering are similar to the minor disruptions most people experience but occur more frequently and noticeably.
Some individuals who clutter may experience anxiety around speaking and avoid social or professional situations, leading to feelings of isolation. Our personalized cluttering therapy focuses on improving speech clarity, pacing, and overall communication confidence.
Motor speech Disorders
Understanding Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS)
Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS)—a motor speech disorder that affects a child’s ability to plan and coordinate the movements needed for clear speech. In children with CAS, the brain struggles to send the correct signals to the muscles of the mouth, lips, and tongue. Even though these muscles are not weak, the child may have difficulty moving them accurately to produce sounds, syllables, and words.
Children with apraxia of speech know what they want to say—the challenge lies in getting their mouth muscles to move the right way at the right time. CAS is sometimes referred to as verbal dyspraxia or developmental apraxia, but it is important to understand that children do not simply "outgrow" this condition without specialized speech therapy.
With early intervention and consistent, targeted treatment, children with CAS can make significant improvements in their speech clarity and communication skills.
Signs and Symptoms of Childhood Apraxia of Speech
Every child with CAS is unique, but common signs include:
- Inconsistent production of the same word
- Incorrect stress on syllables or words
- Distorted or altered speech sounds
- Greater difficulty pronouncing longer or more complex words compared to shorter ones
Children with CAS may also experience:
- Delays in developing fine motor skills
- Challenges with language development
- Later difficulties with reading, spelling, and writing
If your child is over the age of 3 and shows any of these symptoms, it’s important to consult a speech-language pathologist (SLP) for a full evaluation.
What Causes Childhood Apraxia of Speech?
In most cases, the exact cause of CAS is unknown. However, CAS can sometimes be linked to brain damage resulting from a genetic disorder, neurological condition, stroke, or traumatic brain injury.
Contact us today to schedule a consultation and learn how we can help your child find their voice.
Our Speech therapy Process
Patient consulation
Speech Therapy services begin
Patient consulation
This first step is an initial consultation free of charge conducted by phone to learn about your concerns, answer questions, and assess the need for a formal evaluation.
Formal evaluation
Speech Therapy services begin
Patient consulation
During this step a combination of in-person standardized testing and patient observation will be used to evaluate the patient to determine their need for speech and language services.
Speech Therapy services begin
Speech Therapy services begin
Speech Therapy services begin
If speech therapy services are recommended following formal evaluation, a weekly schedule will be established.
Service Areas
Guinning Therapy, LLC provides mobile pediatric speech therapy services in private settings including patients’ homes, daycares, and convenient community settings. Teletherapy services through a HIPAA compliant platform may be utilized when appropriate. We provide services in-person in Fulton and Fayette counties and surrounding areas within a 10 mile radius of the 30349 zip code.