Servicing Adolescents
Services for Adolescents
Young adults 13 to 17 navigate a unique space between self discovery and self awareness. If your teen is seeking to improve their communication and/or comprehension, TSE can help by personalizing a plan curated to individual learning styles. Service for adolescents include:
Social Communication
Sometimes, social interaction (especially in new settings) can be awkward and downright uncomfortable. It happens to to best of us. However, if your speech and/or language challenges are inhibiting your ability to develop positive or meaningful relationships, TSE can help. Social/pragmatic communication focused therapy may address:
Conversation etiquette and norms
Topic maintenance and eye contact
Identifying verbal and non verbal cues in social settings
Receptive Language Therapy
Receptive language is your ability to understand information presented in verbal or written form. Challenges in receptive language can manifest as difficulty following directions or conversations, and trouble understanding fiction and non-fiction text. TSE receptive language intervention may address:
Reading comprehension strategies
Understanding and following multi-step directions
Understanding verbal or written information
Expressive Language Therapy
Expressive language is your ability to communicate thoughts and ideas. This may be in verbal, non verbal or written form. Challenges in expressive language can manifest as difficulty with topic maintenance, word-finding, disfluency or unclear speech. TSE expressive language focused intervention may address:
word finding for spoken or written tasks
clearly and cohesively expressing thoughts and ideas
Disfluency: stuttering and cluttering
Articulation and intelligibility