Where to Look for Speech Therapy in Maryland

by Holly F.

If you hear your child say “cwab cake,” chances are they’re a candidate for a speech evaluation or, they live in Maryland. Maryland offers a bit of everything to its tourists and residents- mountains on the west coast and beaches on the east. For it’s children, Maryland serves 848,412 public school students across 24 districts. For it’s children with speech and language disorders,  great private speech therapy in Maryland can be found across the state.

 

Chevy Chase Speech Therapy

With 20 years of experience behind her, owner and SLP Susan Billington diagnoses and treats a variety of speech, language and learning disorders in children and adults at this private practice. Ms. Billington specializes in treatment for pre-school and school aged children by assessing: articulation skills, speech and language, pre-reading skills, Myofunctional tongue-thrust and voice.

 

ITS Developmental Services

TS-DTS provides a holistic approach to the treatment of a variety of developmental disorders. As a multidisciplinary clinic in Kensington, MS, DTS often schedules back to back speech/occupational therapy or co-treatments to provide the most effective services to its pediatric population. The wide range of services strive to meet the needs of infants, toddlers, preschoolers, school-aged children, adolescents and their families.

Their treatment of speech and language disorders includes:

• Receptive-Expressive Language Therapy
• Articulation Therapy
• Oral Motor Therapy
• Feeding Therapy
• Assistive Technology Intervention
• Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Device training
• Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) training
• PROMPT evaluation and intervention
• Visualization and Verbalization training (Lindamood-Bell)
• Talkies (Lindamood-Bell)
• LiPS (Lindamood-Bell)

SPEECH PATHways

As the only comprehensive pediatric speech-language pathology clinic in Carroll County, MD, SPEECH PATHways offers some unique services for children with difficulties in speech and language. In addition to traditional speech and language therapy, this clinic offers specialized techniques and programs that include: literacy interventions, feeding therapy, specialty groups, executive functioning coaching, and collaborative programs with occupational and physical therapists. Specialty groups include some great social Use social stories to help children understand the emotions of the characters such as “Friendship Team Adventures” and interesting language experiences like “Toddler Talk Express” and “SOUND OFF Speech Boot Camps.” If you’re looking for a well-rounded experience, this might be the place. SPEECH PATHways also offers kindergarten readiness, special needs dance class experiences and summer kid’s movies.

 

How to know which clinic is right for my child?

No one can predict if a speech therapy clinic will be a great match for your child right off the bat. If you’re struggling with which clinic or name in the phonebook is best for your child or a child you know, try to gather additional information online. If the clinic has a Facebook page, check it out for relevant events or to see comments from current families that attend the clinic. Are they praising the services? Are they involved in the clinic community? If the clinic is not on Facebook, call to inquire about a screening. A screening might be available for a short visit to determine if an evaluation is necessary. This might give you a good sense of the clinic space, staff and their office procedures.

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