Speech and Language development is at the heart of every child’s play and socialization.

Advantage Speech & Language Services provides children of all ages with a comprehensive therapeutic approach for enhancing speech and language skills.  Your child will be provided with pediatric services by a trained, professional speech therapist who has a diverse background in treating an array of delays and disorders.  The child-focused treatment is offered within your home or child's daycare environment to promote successful expansion of language. 

Cheryl Pizappi, owner of Advantage Speech & Language Services is committed to providing the highest quality speech, language, and communication services within a familiar learning environment.  She is highly proficient, innovative, and compassionate.  She is dedicated to working with families and motivated to working collaboratively with other professionals to ensure that children reach their ultimate potential.

What I Do

     Speech-Language Therapy helps children develop communication skills including articulation, verbal comprehension, expression, auditory processing, phonological awareness, pragmatics, voice, and fluency.  Speech therapy also addresses oral-motor and feeding skills, as well as augmentative and alternative communication.    

     I can help your child with  DELAYS or DISORDERS
     related to:

• Listening and Spoken Language
• Receptive and Expressive Language Disorders
• Early Language Development
• Developmental Delays
• Apraxia/Dyspraxia
• Feeding Disorders
• Oral Motor Disorders
• Articulation/Speech Production
• Intelligibility during speech
• Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Auditory Processing Disorders
• Cognitive Disorders
• Down Syndrome
• Medically Fragile Conditions
• Dysarthria/Low Muscle Tone
• Thumb Sucking
• Foreign Accent Reduction (adults)

If your child has any of these red flags, speech-language therapy may be appropriate.

Speech-Language Therapy Targets:
 
Language Expression - the production of spoken and written communication.  Difficulty developing single words, combining words, poor sentence structure.
 
Language Comprehension - understanding spoken and written language.  Difficulty following directions and understanding concepts such as color, shape, opposite; poor vocabulary
 
Auditory Processing - the brain's ability to process what is heard.  Difficulty following directions and listening; an inability to recall words
 
Articulation - phoneme (sound) production.  Substituting, distorting or omitting sounds
 
Pragmatic Speech - appropriate communication in social situations.  Inappropriate body language, eye contact, or responses in social situations
 
Augmentative and Alternative Communication - supplementing speech with gestures, picture symbols, or voice-output devices or computers.  Lack of speech or limited ability to speak
 
Oral-Motor / Feeding Skills - sucking, swallowing, chewing, and biting.  Facial weakness, drooling, coughing, choking, gagging, refusing certain foods
 
Voice- sound produced by the vibration of the vocal cords and resonators.  Abnormal pitch, volume, or quality of voice
 
Fluency - the rhythm and flow of speech.  Stuttering or abnormal rate of speech