Speech & Feeding
Articulation therapy for speech sounds with a muscular cause, and pediatric feeding therapy for picky eating and oral motor skills.
Understanding the muscle connection
Some speech errors are muscle patterns wearing a disguise. A lisp that rides on a tongue thrust, an R that never settles because the tongue rests low, sounds that improve in the therapy room and collapse at home: these often trace back to how the mouth rests and moves, not to what the child knows.
Feeding works the same way. Chewing, moving food, and tolerating textures are oral motor skills. When they lag, mealtimes narrow to a few safe foods and a lot of stress. Building the underlying skills reopens the menu.
Signs we see
- A lisp, or distorted S, R, or L sounds
- Speech progress that plateaued in traditional articulation therapy
- Picky eating that is really texture avoidance
- Slow, messy, or effortful chewing, or overstuffing the mouth
- Gagging on foods that peers manage easily
How therapy helps
This is where the practice’s speech-language pathology foundation does the most work. We treat the muscular base and the sound together: rest posture and swallow first, then sound-specific articulation built on top, so gains hold outside the therapy room.
Feeding therapy pairs oral motor skill building with graded, pressure-free exposure to new textures, and parents leave every session with practical strategies for the table at home.
What to expect
- An evaluation covering speech, feeding, and the muscle patterns underneath
- Weekly sessions that pair muscle work with sound or feeding practice
- Parent coaching and daily home practice of five to ten minutes
- Progress measured against baseline and shared in plain language
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