The Speech Teacher, Jenny Johns, ccc/slp

I believe that what I am able to teach children in therapy can improve the rest of their lives. Children with untreated speech/language disorders experience frustration, feelings that nobody listens, teasing, and confusion--feelings that can darken a child's entire life! It is my belief that teaching children how to communicate more effectively helps them grow into the exceptional people that they

were meant to be. Skills taught at The Speech Teacher include articulation (pronouncing words correctly), phonological processes (putting sounds in the right places), receptive language (understanding what is said to you), semantics (vocabulary and how words are related to each other), syntax (forming sentences, word order, and grammar), pragmatics (using polite language, making requests, participating in conversation), narratives (how to tell a story), problem solving (thinking things through logically and explaining it), auditory processing (making sense of what you've heard), and other disorders like tongue thrust, apraxia, stuttering, and voice disorders.