SERVICES
Pediatric speech therapy that meets your child where they are.
Little Language provides individualized speech and language services for children and families through play-based, child-led, and neurodiversity-affirming care.
OUR SERVICES
Ways we can support your family:
Speech & Language Evaluations
A comprehensive evaluation helps us better understand your child’s communication strengths, areas where additional support may be helpful, and the next steps that best fit your family.
Evaluations may include parent interview, play-based observation, standardized assessment when appropriate, and individualized recommendations.
Individual Speech & Language Therapy
Individual therapy sessions are tailored to your child’s communication needs, interests, and strengths. Sessions are play-based and designed to create meaningful opportunities for communication.
30- and 45-minute sessions available.
AAC & Multimodal Communication Support
Support for children who use or may benefit from additional ways to communicate, including gestures, signs, pictures, and speech-generating devices.
AAC can be used alongside spoken language and is individualized to each child.
In-Home Speech Therapy
In-home therapy allows children to build communication skills within a familiar environment using everyday toys, routines, and interactions.
Available in select areas of Orange County.
Communication support tailored to your child.
Every child’s communication profile is different. Therapy may address one or several areas depending on your child’s strengths, needs, and goals.
Speech Sounds
Speech sound therapy may support:
- Clearer speech production
- Development of age-appropriate speech sounds
- Motor planning for speech
- Increased confidence when communicating
- Improved intelligibility in everyday conversations
Speech sound therapy supports children who have difficulty producing certain sounds or being understood by others. Therapy may focus on improving speech clarity, developing new speech sounds, and helping children communicate more confidently in everyday situations.
Language therapy may support:
- Understanding words, concepts, questions, and directions
- Building vocabulary
- Combining words into phrases and sentences
- Expressing wants, needs, thoughts, and feelings
- Answering and asking questions
- Understanding and telling stories
- Using language more flexibly in everyday interactions
Language development therapy supports children who may have difficulty understanding language, expressing their thoughts and ideas, or using language effectively in everyday situations. Therapy is individualized to help children build stronger comprehension and more flexible, meaningful communication.
Language Development
Early Communication
Early communication therapy may support:
- Increasing meaningful communication
- Developing first words and early phrasesUsing gestures, signs, or AAC
- Building vocabulary
- Expanding play and interaction skillsIncreasing spontaneous communication
- Helping families create communication opportunities during everyday routines
Early communication therapy supports young children who are beginning to develop the foundational skills for meaningful communication. Sessions are play-based and may incorporate gestures, sounds, words, AAC, movement, and interaction to help each child communicate in ways that feel natural and successful.
Social communication therapy may support:
- Starting and maintaining interactions
- Expressing preferences, ideas, and emotions
- Understanding and responding to others
- Repairing communication breakdowns
- Self-advocacy
- Navigating conversations and shared activities
- Building meaningful relationships
Social communication therapy supports children in developing meaningful ways to connect, interact, and communicate with others. Therapy focuses on practical communication skills while respecting each child’s personality, preferences, and natural communication style.
Social Communication
AAC & Multimodal Communication
AAC support may include:
- Exploring appropriate AAC options
- Modeling language using AAC during play and everyday activities
- Supporting use of speech-generating devices
- Building functional and spontaneous communication
- Using gestures, signs, pictures, and spoken language together
- Supporting communication across home, school, and community settings
- Coaching caregivers on how to model and support AAC naturally
AAC and multimodal communication support gives children additional ways to express themselves using tools such as gestures, signs, pictures, and speech-generating devices. AAC can be used alongside spoken language and is individualized to each child’s communication needs, strengths, and preferences.
Not sure which service is the right fit?
That’s okay. You don’t need to know exactly what your child needs before reaching out. We can talk through your concerns and help determine the next best step.