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Speech, Feeding, & Occupational Therapy

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SPEECH • LANGUAGE • SOCIAL SKILLS • FEEDING • OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY 

Our child-centered and individualized services begin with an evaluation that allows us to develop a comprehensive picture of your child's abilities, challenges, and preferences. We also dedicate time to understanding family goals and values to ensure our therapy is meaningful and aligns with each family's preferences and needs.

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Once speech, feeding, or occupational therapy begins, every session combines evidence-based approaches with engaging and interactive activities. We believe strongly in empowering families with tools and strategies to support ongoing practice at home and dedicate time during the session for parent education and home practice tips. Magnolia Speech Therapy is also committed to being a trusted resource for families, and whenever necessary, we are available to answer questions and provide guidance. 

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At Magnolia Speech Therapy, we provide neurodiversity-affirming, child-led, and strengths-based services by integrating each child's sensory needs, interests, and preferences. We specialize in intervention for:

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Autism
Speech Sound Disorders
Phonological Disorders

AAC Therapy & AAC Evaluations
Language Impairment (Expressive & Receptive)
Reading Comprehension
Auditory Comprehension
Stuttering
Play Skills

Pediatric Feeding Disorders

Picky Eating

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We offer comprehensive AAC (augmentative and alternative communication) assessments. If your child qualifies for an AAC device, we will help submit the report to insurance to acquire funding for a dedicated speech-generating device.

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SPEECH

Speech therapy addresses communication delays and disorders to support children in:

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  • Increasing functional communication skills​

  • Improving speech intelligibility ​

  • Developing accurate production of age-appropriate speech sounds and sound combinations​​​

  • Addressing motor planning challenges for accurate speech production​

  • Implementing strategies for fluent speech​

  • Parent coaching to support speech development at home

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​Together we will address your child's individualized speech goals to not only develop age-appropriate communication skills but to also build their confidence in their communication abilities. 

LANGUAGE

​Intervention for language addresses receptive and expressive language delays and disorders to help your child:

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  • Develop an effective means to communicate wants and needs​

  • Expand phrase length and vocabulary ​

  • Follow directions​

  • Ask and answer questions​​​

  • Improve their grammar and sentence structure  â€‹â€‹

  • Use descriptive language for story retell​

  • Address reading, writing, and spelling challenges

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Language therapy will support your child's skill development across all environments - home, social, and academic - to ensure they have the skills to actively and confidently engage in everyday activities. 

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We also implement the Natural Language Acquisition (NLA) framework to support communication development in children who use scripts and delayed echolalia to communicate. The NLA framework will help your child:

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  • Use more scripts​

  • Combine scripts to create new utterances​

  • Begin using self-generated language

SOCIAL SKILLS

​Therapy for social communication addresses age-appropriate skills focused on:

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  • Joint attention​​

  • Increasing and expanding play skills​​

  • Developing strategies for navigating social interactions at home, in school, and in the community​​​​

  • Social-emotional awareness and self-advocacy skills ​

  • Developing an understanding of non-verbal and non-literal communication

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Social skills therapy honors neurodiversity while also supporting the development of skills that are meaningful and important to you and your child. 

FEEDING THERAPY

Feeding therapy focuses on building the skills needed for safe chewing and swallowing while overcoming the challenges associated with picky eating. Our feeding therapists will work alongside your family to help your child:

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  • Improve their oral motor skills

  • Transition from milk to solids

  • Eat a greater variety of foods

  • Overcome sensory feeding challenges

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Together, we'll empower your child to be a confident eater and enjoy mealtimes!

OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY

Occupational therapy will help your child play and learn better in daily life. Our OTs will design fun and challenging activities to help them:

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  • Develop fine and gross motor skills

  • Integrate sensory information

  • Regulate their emotions and behavior 

  • Gain independence and self help skills

  • Play and socialize with others

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Our services are neurodiversity-affirming and honor each child's sensory needs, interests, and preferences.

Children working on language skills during child-led speech therapy for kids in Smyrna, TN
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