Speech-Language pathologists at Kennedy Krieger Institute provide clinical services to pediatric patients and their families or to individuals with developmental delays or other special needs who have or are suspected of having communication, oral motor, feeding/swallowing or hearing deficits
The goal is to help these patients achieve their potential and participate as fully as possible in family, community, educational and vocational setting.
Areas of Specialty
- Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC)
- Bilingualism
- Executive functioning
- Expressive language (i.e., language use)
- Feeding and swallowing
- Fluency (i.e., stuttering)
- Functional communication
- Literacy (i.e., phonological awareness, decoding, reading comprehension and writing)
- Oral motor strength and functioning
- Pragmatic language and social skills
- Receptive language (i.e., comprehension)
- Speech sound production (i.e., articulation)
- Traumatic brain injury (TBI)
Our Team
SLPs provide clinical services to children through many different avenues. The dynamic staff has expertise in meeting children's subtle and complex communication and feeding/swallowing needs.