What is Speech and Language Therapy?

Speech-language therapy for the pediatric population helps children develop communication, language, and feeding skills. It supports those with speech delays, language disorders, social communication challenges, or difficulties with swallowing. Therapy is tailored to each child's needs and often uses play-based methods to build skills essential for learning and interacting with others.

Who Can Benefit from Speech Therapy?

Children with various communication or feeding challenges can benefit from speech- language therapy. This includes those with speech, language, voice, fluency, and social communication difficulties, as well as feeding and swallowing issues.

• Speech Delay: Late development of clear, age-appropriate sounds.
• Articulation Disorder: Difficulty producing specific speech sounds correctly.
• Language Delay/Disorder: Trouble understanding or using words and sentences.
• Fluency Disorder: Disruptions in the flow of speech, such as stuttering.
• Voice Disorder: Problems with pitch, volume, or quality of the voice.
• Social Communication Disorder: Difficulty using language appropriately in social settings.
• Feeding/Swallowing Issues: Problems with chewing, swallowing, or oral coordination.
• Autism Spectrum Disorder: May impact both verbal and nonverbal communication.
• Hearing Loss: Affects the development of speech and language skills.

Early intervention can significantly improve outcomes in these areas.

Our Paediatric Speech Therapy Approaches

• Play-Based Therapy: Engaging children through play to build communication skills naturally.
• Articulation & Phonology Therapy: Supporting clear speech sound production.
•  Language Intervention: Enhancing understanding and use of language (receptive & expressive).
• Fluency Therapy: Helping children who stutter speak more smoothly and confidently.
• Social Communication (Pragmatics): Teaching conversational skills and social language use.
• AAC (Augmentative & Alternative Communication): Providing tools and systems for nonverbal or minimally verbal children.
• Feeding & Swallowing Therapy: Supporting safe eating and oral motor development.
• Parent Coaching & Home Programs: Empowering families to support progress outside of sessions.
• Holistic approaches: like the Hanen Program, combine traditional techniques with play-based strategies. They focus on parent-child interaction for language development.
• PROMPT therapy restructures oral muscular phonetic targets, while Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) uses tools to support those with speech impairments.

Effectiveness varies across approaches, but tailored treatment plans and evidence- based strategies generally enhance communication outcomes.

Core Focus Areas of Our Program:- Helping Your Child Thrive

1. Speech Development
- Sounds and Pronunciation: Helping your child produce sounds clearly and correctly.
- Speech Clarity: Working on speaking more clearly so others can understand them easily.

2. Language Skills
- Vocabulary Building: Expanding your child's word bank to help them express themselves better.
- Grammar & Sentence Structure: Encouraging proper sentence formation and the use of grammar.

3. Listening and Understanding
- Following Directions: Helping your child understand and follow spoken instructions.
- Comprehension: Improving your child's ability to understand stories, conversations, and instructions.

4. Social Communication Skills
- Conversational Skills: Teaching how to start, maintain, and end a conversation.
- Non-verbal Communication: Improving body language, facial expressions, and tone of voice to help with effective communication.

5. Fluency (Smooth Speech)
- Reducing Stuttering: Working on techniques to help with smooth and confident speech.

6. Alternative Communication Systems
- Sign Language or Communication Devices: If verbal speech is difficult, we may introduce other ways to communicate like sign language or assistive devices.

7. Behavioral and Emotional Support
- Building Confidence: Encouraging your child to communicate without fear of judgment.
- Managing Communication Challenges: Helping your child feel comfortable in social and school environments.

Benefits of Speech Therapy at Al najma Center

• Personalized Care – Individualized therapy plans tailored to your child’s unique needs and developmental goals.
• Skilled Professionals – Experienced and compassionate therapists using evidence- based techniques.
• Early Language Support – Helping young children develop strong foundational communication skills.
• Improved Speech Clarity – Supporting clear and confident speech for easier understanding.
• Enhanced Social Skills – Encouraging meaningful interactions through play and social language development.
• Boosted Confidence – Empowering children to express themselves in daily routines and social settings.
• Family Involvement – Collaborating with parents for carryover at home and long- term success.
• Support for Special Needs – Expertise in working with children with autism, developmental delays, and other communication challenges.
• Holistic Approach – Addressing feeding, voice, fluency, and AAC needs in a nurturing, child-centered environment.

Why families Trust Al Najma Center?

Our centre for speech and language therapy have expert team of licensed therapists, individualized treatment plans, and compassionate approach. Our therapy services are designed to address a wide range of communication and swallowing disorders, including Stuttering, Autism, ADHD, Speech and Language Disorders. We focus on the unique needs of each child, providing evidence-based interventions that foster communication skills, promote growth, and improve quality of life in a supportive environment.

Begin Your Childs Speech therapy Journey Today!

If your child is struggling with speech delay, communication problems or any other associated conditions. Al najma center is here to help. Our team of experts is dedicated to guide your child through every step of your journey.

Contact us today to schedule a consultation and take the first step towards supporting your childs confidence in speech.

Many families have seen their children gain confidence, mastered in speech skills and thrive in every moments through our engaging therapy sessions. We look forward to build that journey with you!

SERVICES PROVIDING:

EARLY INTERVENTION

In Al Najma Center ,We offer Early Intervention services that are provided from birth to 3 years-old to improve delayed speech and language skills. EI services, which are typically family-centered, can be highly effective at improving a child’s skills. A child’s speech delay that is identified and treated early can lead to improved outcomes .Early intervention may be indicated if a child has difficulty with any of the following skills:

• Speech & Language Skills (such as talking & listening)
• Social-Emotional Skills (including play skills & interacting with others)
• Physical Development (fine & gross motor skills)
• Cognitive Skills (problem solving and learning skills)
• Adaptive Skills (including self-help skills like dressing and bathing)

Specific signs that a child has a language delay and should receive Early Intervention Speech Therapy are:

• Delayed vocabulary (not saying as many words as they should. For example: saying less than 50 words at age 2 years)
• Trouble understanding what other people say (such as following directions)
• Decreased social interaction (difficulty playing or interacting with other kids (by age 2 to 3 years old)
• Speech is hard to understand (trouble pronouncing simple, early developing sounds like b, p, m, w, h by age 2 and also g, k, t, d, f, n by age 3.
• Stuttering (repeating the first sounds in a word or the whole word several times, tensing their body or getting frustrated when trying to get words out).

DEVELOPMENTAL DELAY IN SPEECH

Developmental delay is a term used when a child is not developing and reaching the milestones typical for their age, in one or more areas of (speech, language and communication) development. A child who has a developmental delay in speech, language and communication would be significantly delayed in developing the skills needed for understanding spoken or written language, being able to express their thoughts, speech or communication with others. A child who has delayed skills in understanding spoken language may struggle to understand complex and long phrases expressed by parents or teachers.

Our speech and language therapists of AL Najma Center can work with your child to reduce the level of delay and increase your child’s skills by creating a therapy programme that is individual to your child, using their strengths and weaknesses to further their development.

SPEECH AND LANGUAGE DISORDERS:

At our Al Najma Center the type of treatment plan will be decided after the assessment done by our experienced therapists using specialized test tools depend on the severity of the speech disorder and its cause. Therapists use a variety of strategies, including

Language intervention activities: The SLP will interact with a child by playing and talking, using pictures, books, objects, or ongoing events to stimulate language development.

Articulation therapy: Articulation, or sound production, exercises involve having the therapist model correct sounds and syllables in words and sentences for a child, often during play activities.

Teach strategies for facilitating communication rather than teaching isolated behaviors.

Provide dynamic assessment and dynamic therapy in order to monitor progress and adjust treatment plans as necessary.

Provide individualized treatment based on a child’s needs (goals, cues, materials, stimuli).

What are the disorders we treat?

• Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
• Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
• Down Syndrome
• Cerebral Palsy
• Cleft Lip and/or Palate
• Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS)
• Developmental Language Disorder (DLD)
• Expressive Language Delay
• Receptive Language Delay
• Speech Sound Disorders
• Stuttering (Fluency Disorder)
• Auditory Processing Disorder (APD)
• Intellectual Disability
• Hearing Impairment/Deafness
• Voice Disorders
• Feeding and Swallowing Disorders (Dysphagia)
• Learning Disabilities
• Social Communication Disorder

OPT in Speech Therapy

At Our Al Najma Center we provide Oral Placement Therapy which utilizes a combination of: (1) auditory stimulation, (2) visual stimulation and (3) tactile stimulation to the mouth to improve speech clarity.

OPT is an important addition to traditional speech treatment methods for clients with placement and movement deficits.It is a tactile-proprioceptive teaching technique which accompanies traditional therapy. Traditional therapy is primarily auditory and visual.Clients with motor and/or sensory impairments benefit from tactile and proprioceptive components because speech is a tactile- proprioceptive act.

OPT is used to improve articulator awareness, placement (dissociation, grading, and direction of movement), stability, and muscle memory; all of these are necessary for the development of speech clarity.