Pacific Rim Speech provides assessment and therapy for learners of all ages. We exist to ensure families and all learners feel empowered in their daily speech, language, and literacy needs.
We provide specialized support in childhood speech and language disorders in all ages. This includes IDA+plus accredited Dyslexia Structured Literacy Specialist intervention and services for adults navigating memory and language changes such as Dementia.
Our IDA+PLUS accredited Structured Literacy Intervention connects oral to written language skills; including phonological awareness skills, decoding, morphology, and self-regulating strategies in writing.
Areas of oral and written language that include social and academic difficulties in:
-Reasoning
-Problem-solving
-Self-advocacy
-Decision-making
-Interpreting data
-Explanation
-Intent/Purpose
Some areas of social language/pragmatics are:
-Context of conversations
-Perspective-taking
-Turn-taking
-Requesting skills
Our services support neurodivergent-learner needs, including story and event-telling, comprehension, and Gestalt Language-based therapy.
Gestalt Language learners develop language skills in chunks rather than individual parts. This may sound like familiar songs or repeated phrases that have been memorized in one space and spoken in other spaces.
Executive function skills include maintaining attention to tasks, flexibility, and impulse control.
Independent hygiene and everyday routines may be noticeably difficult in learners still developing these types of skills.
-Childhood Apraxia of Speech
-Being understood clearly
-Speech-sound milestones
-Phonology/sound patterns, including phoneme collapse and severe speech disorder
