Our Services
Speech Sound Production / Articulation Therapy
We support your child’s speech sound development.
We assess your child with a normed and standardized test called the Goldman-Fristoe Test of Articulation 3.
We write a report and use test results, observations, and information provided by you to develop goals to target in therapy.
We start therapy and focus on correct placement of the lips, tongue, cheeks, and jaws when making sounds in isolation, words, sentences, paragraphs, and spontaneous conversation.
Availability
Monday – Friday
Morning, Afternoon or Evening
Location
1471 Twilight Trail, Suite A
Frankfort, Kentucky 40601
Language Therapy
We help your child gain expressive, receptive, and pragmatic language skills and strategies to improve communication with others.
We assess your child with a normed and standardized test called the Preschool Language Scales 5 and/or the Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals 5.
We write a report and use test results, observations, and information provided by you to develop goals to target in therapy.
We start therapy and focus on the many areas of language, including, but not limited to:
Listening Comprehension
Reading Comprehension
Vocabulary
Syntax
Grammar
Eye contact
Increasing focus and attention
Turn taking
Following directions
And much more
Availability
Monday – Friday
Morning, Afternoon or Evening
Location
1471 Twilight Trail, Suite A
Frankfort, Kentucky 40601
Dyslexia / Reading Therapy
We help your child improve reading, spelling, and writing skills.
Our specialist, Ruth Fitz-Gerald:
Interviews the parent and child.
Administers a very in-depth and detailed screening.
Writes a detailed report that determines if your child fits the definition of dyslexia.
Meets with parents to review report.
Offers recommendations and classroom accommodations.
Determines which reading program best fits your child.
We start therapy.
We offer the following reading, writing, and spelling programs:
Orton-Gillingham was among the first teaching approaches designed to help struggling readers by explicitly teaching the connections between letters and sounds.
It’s a highly structured approach that breaks reading and spelling down into smaller skills involving letters and sounds, and then builds on these skills over time. The program uses explicit, direct, sequential, systematic, multi-sensory instruction .
The Ascend program uses a systematic and structured Orton-Gillingham based approach to target reading and writing. Orton-Gillingham focuses on reading, writing, and spelling. Ascend focuses on reading, writing, spelling, vocabulary, and comprehension.
The Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing Program for Reading, Spelling, and Speech (LiPS®) focuses on the sensory-cognitive processing necessary for reading and comprehension. The LiPS Program teaches students to discover and label the oral-motor movements of phonemes. Students then verify the identity, number, and sequence of sounds in words. Once established, phonemic awareness is then applied to reading, spelling, and speech.
Availability
Monday – Friday
Morning, Afternoon or Evening
Location
1471 Twilight Trail, Suite A
Frankfort, Kentucky 40601
More information about Dyslexia
Click below for lists to see if your child shows signs of dyslexia.
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• delayed speech
• mixing up the sounds and syllables in long words
• chronic ear infections
• severe reactions to childhood illnesses
• constant confusion of left versus right
• late establishing a dominant hand
• difficulty learning to tie shoes
• trouble memorizing their address, phone number, or the alphabet
• can’t create words that rhyme
• a close relative with dyslexia
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• dysgraphia (slow, non-automatic handwriting that is difficult to read)
• letter or number reversals continuing past the end of first grade
• extreme difficulty learning cursive
• slow, choppy, inaccurate reading:
- guesses based on shape or context
- skips or misreads prepositions (at, to, of)
- ignores suffixes
- can’t sound out unknown words
• terrible spelling
• often can’t remember sight words (they, were, does) or homonyms (their, they’re, and there)
• difficulty telling time with a clock with hands
• trouble with math
- memorizing multiplication tables
- memorizing a sequence of steps
- directionality
• when speaking, difficulty finding the correct word
- lots of “whatyamacallits” and “thingies”
- common sayings come out slightly twisted
• extremely messy bedroom, backpack, and desk
• dreads going to school
- complains of stomach aches or headaches
- may have nightmares about school
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All of the symptoms in preschool and elementary ages plus:
• limited vocabulary
• extremely poor written expression
- large discrepancy between verbal skills and written compositions
• unable to master a foreign language
• difficulty reading printed music
• poor grades in many classes
• may drop out of high school
Availability
Monday – Friday
Morning, Afternoon or Evening
Location
1471 Twilight Trail, Suite A
Frankfort, Kentucky 40601