Many children need help mastering speech sound production. At Open Lines®, your expertly trained speech-language pathologist (SLP) begins with a one-on-one comprehensive evaluation of your child’s oral-motor and speech motor production skills of all sounds in the English language. Following the evaluation, your clinician will determine exactly how your child is producing speech sounds and whether their sound errors are developmentally appropriate.

We use the information from this evaluation to develop a personal plan of action, including tailored exercises which target helping your child correctly and naturally modify how they produce sounds. Exercises improve speech accuracy and clarity and, more importantly, confidence when speaking.

Our articulation program follows the highest standards of evidence-based treatment techniques and multisensory approaches to help your child achieve their treatment goals. Using fun and interesting activities that are in line with theories of motor skill acquisition and motor learning and are motivating for children, therapy begins at simpler levels and becomes progressively more challenging until mastery in conversation is reached.

Our licensed clinicians also address the frustration your child may feel when they are misunderstood and help your child communicate easily and successfully with family, peers, and teachers. Utilizing a holistic approach, our program also fosters the development of phonemic awareness and early decoding (i.e., reading) skills to mitigate the increased risk of difficulties associated with learning to read.