To get started in speech and language treatment at our clinic, your child will have a full evaluation with one of our speech-language pathologists. This allows us to formulate goals based on first-hand knowledge of your child. The evaluating SLP will go over your child’s background with you, then the fun begins. Our therapists are entertaining and truly know how to engage children. Most of the evaluation will be spent one-on-one with your child, but you are welcome to watch from one of our observation rooms.

In regular treatment sessions, speech-language pathologists at the KCC can help children:

• Improve oral-motor skills

• Become verbal communicators

• Become intelligible speakers

• Process and comprehend spoken language

• Put words together to formulate their thoughts with age-appropriate grammatical skills

• Diminish “jargon” and replace with effective verbal communication

• Examine echolalia, and modify with the ability to process and comprehend spoken language so it can also be expressed

• Be able to understand directions and language beyond their memorized routines

• Desensitize them to their difficulties and instill confidence, trust, and self-esteem!

Please note: Speech and language treatment at Kaufman Children's Center is for children who are able to come to our West Bloomfield clinic on a regular basis. If you live outside of the suburban Detroit area, click here for a video consultation, which could lead to a short, intensive visit with Nancy Kaufman.