Evaluation & Therapy Services

Bright Talkers Speech and Language Therapy offers evaluations, parent coaching services, and one-on-one speech therapy for children between the ages of 0-6 years. Our in-person services take place at the child’s home, daycare, or school in the Greenville County area. Online services are available to all North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia residents.

Services

Early Intervention

We specialize in building language through play! Skilled speech-language therapy can help infants and toddlers engage with the world around them by understanding and using:

Gestures and sign language
Play sounds
Visuals
New words

Children need consistency and repetition to learn new skills, so parental involvement is key to great progress.

Parent Coaching

We help caregivers learn and practice the techniques that we use within our sessions. This allows families to confidently support their child’s speech and language development at home, in-between therapy sessions! Parent coaching focuses on:

Building language through play
Using communication strategies in daily routines

We provide parents with resources for home practice, as well as access to their child’s online progress notes and reports.

Speech Therapy

We help children effectively communicate by addressing speech sound production for challenging sounds and sound combinations. We will target common words that apply to their everyday life. Our evidence-based approaches improve:

Overall speech clarity
Accuracy of sound production
Muscle coordination and strength for speech
Rate and rhythm of speech
Fluency (stuttering)

Speech therapy incorporates fun, child-led activities to keep your child interested and engaged.

Language Therapy

We help children develop and practice language skills in a variety of play-based and focused activities. Sessions build essential skills such as:

Answering questions
Following directions
Telling stories
Combining words into complete sentences
Increasing vocabulary
Overall ability to express wants and needs

Language therapy can improve a child’s comprehension, expression, and overall academic success in school.

Feeding Therapy

We are committed to developing a comprehensive understanding of your child's needs. Feeding therapy focuses on motor planning for chewing, sucking, and/or swallowing, sensory processing, and picky eating. We understand the importance of providing the skills that our clients need to eat safely, sustain adequate nutrition, and enjoy mealtimes. Our approach (e.g. SOS (Sequential Oral Sensory) Approach to Feeding; The SOFFI Method) focuses on targeting the following:

Picky eating and food refusal
Breastfeeding support
Oral Motor Skills (chewing, swallowing, lip closure)
Sensory Processing for Food Intolerance
Oral Feeding in Infants

Feeding therapy would address a child's poor eating habits/attitudes, unsafe swallowing, and any nutritional concerns.

Childhood Apraxia of Speech

Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) is a motor speech disorder in which the child has difficulties connecting sounds and syllables into longer words as well as a presence of disturbance with rate and intonation. Depending on the severity, sessions will target the following:

Prosody (intonation, rate, rhythm)
Motor planning
Speech Intelligibility

Immediate treatment is highly recommended for a child with moderate to severe CAS since it can take some time to improve those skills.

Teletherapy

Online speech-language therapy has been shown to be as effective as in-person therapy, but with more flexibility and convenience. By meeting online, parents can forgo the commute to therapy and enjoy more valuable time at home with their families. Teletherapy is now available to all families in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia!