Speech and Language Therapy
Articulation and Speech Disorders: Straka Pediatric Therapies treats articulation and speech disorders including the way an individual pronounces words, sentences or specific speech sounds. Visit the American Speech-Language Hearing Association website for more information.
Autism Spectrum Disorder: Straka Pediatric Therapies provides treatment for all aspects of language difficulties for children and adults with autism spectrum disorder, from pre-linguistic joint attention skills to difficulty with figurative language. For more information, visit the Autism Society website.
Cleft Lip and Palate: Straka Pediatric Therapies treats speech difficulties resulting from cleft lip and palate including resonance, nasality, and specific speech sound difficulties.
Developmental Delays: Straka Pediatric Therapies wants children to reach their full potential, helping them grow in areas they may be behind.
Feeding Disorders: A feeding problem affects a child’s ability to eat or drink in a developmentally appropriate and safe way. For guidelines and tips on supplemental nutrition, click here. For more information, visit the American Speech-Language Hearing Association website or the American Occupational Therapy Association website.
Hearing Impairments: Straka Pediatric Therapies treats a variety of hearing impairments. It is especially important to diagnose and treat a hearing impairment in children as early as possible to limit potential impact on learning and development. For more, visit the American Speech-Language Hearing Association website.
Language Disorders: Straka Pediatric Therapies helps children and adults who have trouble with grammar, sentence structure, vocabulary and word finding skills as well as difficulty processing language and information. For more, visit the American Speech-Language Hearing Association website.
Motor Speech Disorders: Straka Pediatric Therapies addresses concerns with an individual’s ability to coordinate the fine motor movements required for speech to sound intelligible, sometimes referred to as apraxia of speech. For more information on apraxia, visit the Childhood Apraxia of Speech Association website.
Social Language Disorders: Straka Pediatric Therapies treats concerns with a person’s ability to communicate and relate to peers including social rules, conversation skills, problem-solving, and activities of daily living.
Stuttering: Straka Pediatric Therapies treats stuttering in children and adults. Stuttering affects fluency of speech and is characterized by “bumps” or “blocks” in the production of speech sounds and can lead to communication difficulties. For more information, visit the Stuttering Foundation of America website.
Voice Disorders: Straka Pediatric Therapies treats pediatric voice disorders and vocal cord dysfunction. Voice disorders concern the quality, volume and resonance of a patient’s voice.
Occupational And Physical Therapy
Straka Pediatric Therapies provides services to help children develop underlying skills essential for learning and performing specific tasks, as well as addresses social and behavioral skills. Occupational and physical therapy assist with a child’s overall self-concept and confidence, by helping children develop basic sensory awareness and motor skills needed for motor development, learning, and healthy behavior. These include the following:
Body awareness (proprioceptive sense)
Coordination of movements between the two sides of the body (“crossing midline”)
Fine motor control and organization
Motor planning
Motor movements and coordination
Gross motor coordination
Endurance and muscle tone
Visual perceptual skills
Self-regulation
Sensory modulation (reaction to stimulus)
Physical therapy also assists in developing gross motor skills including strengthening, coordination, conditioning, injury healing, injury prevention, and overall development of physical skills. These include the following:
Gait training
Coordination for gross motor skills
Development of gross motor skills from birth to more advanced skills
Orthopedic injury rehabilitation
Sports conditioning and injury prevention
Pain management
Neurologic retraining with balance and coordination
Functional outcomes of occupational and physical therapy can include development in cognitive, physical, sensory, and motor skills, improved core strength, increased independence in activities of daily living, and overall enhancement of self-esteem.
Mental health services
Our mental health therapists will serve current Straka Pediatric Therapies clients including children and pre-adolescents. We value working with the client and the parent/guardian so that we may fully understand the depth of the individual’s needs and from there, facilitate growth. We can support clients with anxiety, depression, grief, self-esteem challenges, motivational challenges, and more.
We offer individual counseling, family counseling, parent coaching/counseling, and group counseling. Clients seeking therapy will participate in an eclectic but client-centered therapeutic style involving Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), Existential Therapy, and Play Therapy.