Augmentative Communication Program | Conditions We Evaluate & Treat
At the Augmentative Communication Program, we have extensive experience evaluating and treating complex communication needs resulting from a variety of conditions including the following:
- motor speech disorders (apraxia/dysarthria/anarthria)
- speech sound production disorders (reduced intelligibility of speech)
- language disorders/delay
- aphasia
- nonspeaking
- difficulty speaking
- and more
Our occupational therapists are skilled in evaluation and treatment of alternative access needs resulting from a variety of conditions including the following:
- congenital upper extremity anomalies
- disorders of tone (spasticity, dystonia, hypotonia)
- delayed gross and fine motor development
- motor planning and coordination
- neurologic and movement disorders
- and more
Complex communication and physical access needs might be related to a diagnosis of:
- Angelman syndrome
- autism spectrum disorders
- cerebral palsy
- congenital malformation syndrome
- CHARGE syndrome
- developmental delay
- genetic syndromes
- intellectual disability
- Landau-Kleffner syndrome
- leukomalacia
- mitochondrial diseases
- muscular dystrophy
- neurological/neurodegenerative conditions
- Pitt Hopkins syndrome
- Phelan-McDermid syndrome
