Speech Therapy

Speech Therapy services at Atlanta Autism Center are available exclusively to clients receiving ABA services

Most intensive behavioral therapy programs for children with ASD include speech-language therapy as part of a comprehensive approach to care. Using a variety of techniques, speech-language therapy addresses the communication challenges often experienced by children with ASD. For example, some children may have limited or no spoken language, while others may enjoy talking but have difficulty with conversational speech, understanding the nuances of language, or recognizing nonverbal and social cues when communicating with others.

Speech-language therapy is designed to coordinate the mechanics of speech with the meaning and social use of language. Therapy begins with an individualized evaluation by a speech-language pathologist (SLP) to assess your child’s communication abilities, strengths, and challenges.

Based on this evaluation, the speech-language pathologist develops individualized goals that may include developing spoken language, improving conversational and social communication skills, and learning nonverbal communication methods such as signs or gestures. In each case, the goal is to help your child communicate in more meaningful, useful, and functional ways.