Speech and Language Therapy
Are you, a loved one, or a child having difficulty speaking, reading, understanding, or communicating? Let us help you get back on track or develop the necessary communication tools!
For Children
Many children have difficulty communicating with parents/peers and/or meeting age/grade level expectations. As a child, this can be frustrating resulting in behavioral outbursts. For parents, this can be even more frustrating, often feeling like you can’t adequately provide for or communicate with your child. We provide speech therapy to children targeting expressive and receptive language skills including:
- Articulation
- Vocabulary
- Direction following
- Signing
- Use of AAC devices
- Spelling
- Writing
- Grammar
- Phonemic Disorders
- Apraxia
- Stuttering
- Cluttering
- Hearing Impaired
- Voice
- Social Skills
- And much more!
Please note that early intervention Speech Therapy services are especially important for children diagnosed with a Developmental Delay, Autism, or Sensory Disorders.
Please do not delay in getting a speech therapy evaluation and scheduling speech therapy treatment if:
- Your child has been diagnosed with any of these disorders
- You suspect something is wrong with their communication system
- You suspect something is wrong with their response to their environment
Your parent intuition is normally right.
For Adults
Strokes and Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) impact our lives greatly. We provide Speech Therapy services to improve speaking, reading, and understanding language in order to return to your pre-incident status. Bell’s Speech and Swallowing Therapy provides speech therapy services for:
- Dysarthria
- Reasoning
- Executive Functioning Skills
- Voice
- Direction Following
- Comprehension
- Reading
- Writing
- Social Skills
- Dysphagia (Please see Swallowing section)
Swallowing & Feeding Therapy
Let us help you eat the things you love! We provide extensive swallowing and feeding therapy from birth across the age span in order to meet nutrition and hydration needs. Dysphagia, or difficulty swallowing, is a serious condition that can cause aspiration pneumonia. At Bell’s Speech and Swallowing Therapy, we use a variety of equipment, techniques, and strategies to improve swallowing function and protect the airway including:
- The Guardian NMES and Biofeedback (Better known to some as VitalSTIM)
- Oral Motor Exercises
- Thermal/Tactile Stimulation
- Compensatory Strategies and Techniques
- Direction Following
- Diet Changes
Signs/Symptoms of dysphagia include, but are not limited to:
- Coughing during/after meals
- Choking during meals
- Watery Eyes
- Runny Nose
- Lengthy Mealtime
Please note that not all people have signs/symptoms of dysphagia and may silently aspirate where foods and liquids directly enter the airway/lungs resulting in pneumonia.
We also develop strategies for pediatrics and children with swallowing/feeding disorders in order to improve intake of solids, liquids, and/or suckling from the bottle including:
- Adaptive equipment
- Postural changes
- Oral Motor Exercises
- Compensatory Strategies and Techniques
- The Guardian NMES and Biofeedback (Better known to some as VitalSTIM)
- Diet Changes
Memory
Are you or a loved one experiencing difficulty with memory? Let us help you and your loved one keep the memories that are closest to your heart! Dealing with aging is difficult, but we do not have to lose the memories closest to us! At Bell’s Speech and Swallowing Therapy we provide multiple compensatory strategies, techniques, and exercises to improve and/or maintain memory, hence promoting independence, improving quality of life, and reducing burdens on caregivers. We provide speech therapy services for memory to improve or maintain:
- Activities of Daily Living (ADLs)
- Postural changes
- Reasoning
- Executive Functioning
Accent Redcution
The Hispanic/Latino community is rapidly growing in Jacksonville! Accents is a representation of heritage and culture. Unfortunately, in the U.S. it can also reduce career growth and enhancement in the tough job market. If you think your accent is impacting your opportunity to progress as a U.S. citizen (no matter your nationality), we provide accent reduction speech therapy to develop a more effective communication system in order to facilitate listener ease.
Schools
We currently provide Speech Therapy in multiple Jacksonville area private schools and daycares. If you are a school or day care and would like to contract with Bell’s Speech and Swallowing Therapy for Speech Therapy services, we will be more than happy to provide intervention for speech and language in your learning institution.
