GOOD COMMUNICATION SKILLS = SUCCESS IN THE CLASSROOM AND IN LIFE

The goal of speech/language therapy is to enable the student to be an effective communicator. Good communication skills improve comprehension, reading and speaking. It builds confidence in meeting people and making friends. Most of all to the student it builds self-confidence.

Speech therapy goals and objectives are usually written in the following areas: Articulation, Phonology, Oral-Motor, Phonemic Awareness/Auditory Discrimination, Fluency, Voice, Augmentative Communication, Auditory/Verbal, Functional communication and Language, which includes, receptive/expressive development, verbal expression, written expression, listening comprehension, processing/strategies, pragmatics and syntax.