We at Advantage Therapy believe that communication skills are the fundamental building blocks for literacy and learning. By Enhancing a child's communciation and language ability, our speech language pathologists can help prevent or remediate literacy problems in children and adolescents.

Our Reading Therapy Program includes:
• Comprehensive and standarized evaluations to thoroughly assess reading difficulites found in children and adolescents.
• Customized multisensory and phonologically based treatment sessions provided by our experienced well trained clinicians.

If your child has any of the following warning signs listed below, they may benefit from a comprehensive reading assessment performed by one of our well trained clinicians.

Warning signs that your child may have a reading disability include:
• slow to learn the connection between letters and speech sounds
• difficulty reading single words
• trouble sounding out words
• difficulty with comprehending word meaning
• relies on guessing and contextual cues while reading
• difficulty learning new vocabulary
• relies heavily on memorizing
• has developmental articulation errors
• has language-learning difficulties
• spends long hours on homework, but earns poor grades

If you have concerns about your child's language and literacy development please contact our office to set up a comprehensive evaluation and let us help your child achieve to their full academic potential!