Speech Check Ups - Only $30
Early identification is the key to success with speech and language problems.
We offer speech screenings, which are 15 to 30 minute check-ups. The fee for this service is $30, and is applicable toward a full evaluation.
If you have any concerns about you or your child's speech, please don't delay and hope the condition will improve. Call us at (810) 733-3911 or contact us online to make an appointment and know for sure.
Speech Therapy Specials
Summer Speech Language Programs
Math and English Language Arts Tutoring
Keep the learning going! Open to any and all student including special education students. Content taught includes Michigan Grade Level Content Expectations (GLEC's) and IEP Goals & Objectives. $20 for 1/2 hour, $35.00 per hour, one-on-one sessions.
Fast ForWord - The Importance of Brain Fitness in Education
The spring and summer months are the perfect time to enroll your struggling reader in grades K-12 in a scientifically proven reading program that raises your student one complete grade level. Fast ForWord can be done by remote from your home with our guidance and weekly telephone meetings, over holiday breaks and summer vacation. We have had the pleasure of seeing several of our students make tremendous gains with Fast ForWord products. Call for pricing options.
Just as exercise of the body promotes physical fitness, so does the proper exercise of the mind promote brain fitness. The latest neuroscience confirms that the brain can reinvent and reconfigure itself throughout life and not just during the formative years. With frequent, proven brain fitness exercises every learner can become a successful lifelong learner.
What is Brain Fitness?
Just as exercise promotes physical fitness, exercising our brain improves brain fitness in four critical areas:
- Memory
- Attention
- Processing
- Sequencing
Exercises that work these cognitive "muscles" provide valuable benefits to learners:
- Accelerated acquisition of knowledge
- Better ability to utilize and organize information to which they have already been exposed
- Readiness to embark upon an improved trajectory of lifelong learning
Together, brain fitness activities and good instructional practices create an optimal learning environment where students can reach their full potential.
Brain Fitness & Optimal Learning
In our national effort to accelerate learning for all students, conversations have focused primarily upon two points:
- Curriculum standards
- Strategies for individualizing instruction to give learners optimal and repeated exposure to content they haven’t mastered
While these objectives are critically important, they do not directly address the needs of many struggling students:
- Learners who have difficulty paying attention to instruction
- Learners who have difficulty remembering what they are taught
They also do not address the cognitive challenge faced by nearly every learner from English language learners to learners at grade level and above:
- The inability to process information in one or more subject areas as quickly as it is being presented.
- The loss of confidence that follows these difficulties can negatively impact motivation and harm overall academic performance.
Scientific Learning – A Pioneer in Brain Fitness and Education
Scientific Learning strengthens brain processing and builds academic skills for all learners in grades pre-K to post-secondary. Scientific Learning’s family of products has positively impacted the lives of over 2 million learners worldwide. The flagship Fast ForWord® reading intervention programs can help learners achieve a 1-2 year reading gain in as little time as 8 to 12 weeks.
Learn more about the technology behind Fast ForWord at the Fast ForWord website and call us at (810) 733-3911.
Interactive Metronome
This computer-based program is geared towards children with ADHD, Autism, Cerebral Palsy, and Learning Disabilities.
The Interactive Metronome (IM) program provides a structured, goal-oriented process that challenges the patient to synchronize a range of hand and foot exercises to a precise computer-generated reference tone heard through headphones. The patient attempts to match the rhythmic beat with repetitive motor actions.
A patented audio or audio and visual guidance system provides immediate feedback measured in milliseconds, and a score is provided. Today, Speech Language Pathologists are enhancing traditional therapy approaches with Interactive Metronome and achieving measurably improved outcomes. Interactive Metronome has been shown to improve:
- Attention & Concentration
- Motor Planning & Sequencing
- Language Processing
- Behavior (Aggression & Impulsivity)
- Balance and Gait
- Endurance Strength
- Motor Skills
- Coordination
Learn more at the Interactive Metronome website, call (810) 733-3911 or contact the Michigan Speech Language Learning Center for more.
Coloring Page Contest Runs Through June 1, 2012
Enter
the
Coloring Page Contest for our patients! The winner will win a
gift card to Toys R Us and have their picture showcased on our
website.
It's easy to enter. Just click to download the coloring page, print it out and color it! Bring it with you to your speech therapy session.
The contest is open to all students from ages 2-18. One entry per student. Entries will get grouped into age groups with one winner per age group. The groups are ages 2-4, 5-7, 8-10, and 11-18.
We can't wait to see your coloring page!
New Products Added to Our Online Shop
Looking for great products to compliment speech therapy? Our speech pathologists have chosen books, games, toys, music, and oral-motor development products for you to purchase online through Amazon.com. Check out their recommendations!
Continuing Education Presentations
Continuing Education Presentations (non-accredited) related to normal verses abnormal speech and language milestones, ideas to encourage language development and many other exciting and hands on demonstrations. Presentations are typically 1-2 hours in length and each participant receives a certificate of completion. Great way to get extra learning hours for your staff in day care facilities, church day cares, early learning center, etc. We come to your facility. Contact us for pricing.