Every JB campus has two speech-language pathologists who are certified by the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association. They focus on improving pragmatic skills including social thinking, language, relationships, conflict management, and conversational, academic, and emotional communication.
They work with students to evaluate, treat, and assist with:
- Articulation and speech sound disorders
- Receptive and expressive language deficits
- Language learning deficits
- Augmentative and alternative communication
- Oral motor difficulties
- Social/Pragmatic language deficits
Students may need speech-language therapy for many reasons, including:
- Hearing impairments
- Cognitive or developmental delays
- Underdeveloped oral muscles
- Chronic hoarseness
- Cleft lip or cleft palate
- Autism
- Motor planning problems
- Articulation problems
- Fluency disorders
- Respiratory or breathing disorders
- Feeding and swallowing disorders
- Traumatic brain injury
