Speech Therapy

Cathy Ainsworth leads a social group with Strawberry Fields

Speech and Language services at Oak Hill are delivered via a multidisciplinary, collaborative and child centered model.  Our goal is to maximize the communicative competence of our students within their educational  and social environments.  Services are primarily implemented within the classroom/community environment, to maximize concept development and generalization of  skill sets.   Speech and language services focus on building and supporting skill sets in the following areas:

• Speech production (articulation, apraxia, phonological disorders)
• Expressive Language (verbal and written)
• Receptive Language (listening/understanding, reading comprehension)
• Cognitive-linguistic (problem solving/reasoning, memory, executive function skills-organization, planning, sequencing, execution of task)
• Pragmatic/Social thinking skills (understanding and applying behaviors within social interaction including: nonverbal language, reciprocity, perspective taking, making good impressions)
• Augmentative/assisted communication- using alternative systems and materials to support/develop language and integrate these into classroom activities/interactions