1. What is an Auditory Processing Disorder?
2. What is a Visual Processing Disorder?
The root problem could be due to a problem with both eyes working together, or changing focus rapidly, or maintaining sustained focus, or smooth visual tracking of the eyes. This is not a visual acuity problem; it is a processing problem. I recommend Visual Processing Therapy designed to remediate your child’s visual processing weaknesses.
3. What is ADHD or ADD?
ADHD is a behavior disorder that some children have where they are hyperactive and have difficulty paying attention. Many children who have ADHD have very similar symptoms as Auditory Processing Disorder or Visual Processing Disorder. The proper diagnosis is critical to remediation.
If your child has been diagnosed as ADD or ADHD and you have tried medication and the child has not significantly improved, I would recommend having an Auditory & Visual Processing Screening to rule out processing disorders.
4. What is Dyslexia?
5. Do you measure my child's IQ?
6. My child has already had a Psychological or Psychoeducational Evaluation, why do we need to do another Evaluation?
7. What is a Developmental Coordination Disorder?
8. Does the school offer any of these therapies?
9. Will my insurance pay for the Evaluations and/or Therapy?
For information on scholarships please visit Step Up For Students. They offer the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship, which is income based, and the Gardiner Scholarship, which is for Special Needs.
10. Why is your approach different from the average Speech Pathologist?
11. Do you recommend the Lindamood-Bell program?
12. Do you tutor students who are struggling in school?
13. Should my child stay on their current medication?
14. Why is my child delayed in speech or language or learning skills?
15. Can my child's diet affect their learning skills?
16. What is the definition of Speech-language pathology services?
Practice of speech-language pathology” means the application of principles, methods, and procedures for the prevention, identification, evaluation, treatment, consultation, habilitation, rehabilitation, instruction, and research, relative to the development and disorders of human communication; to related oral and pharyngeal competencies; and to behavior related to disorders of human communication. “Disorders” are defined to include any and all conditions, whether of organic or non-organic origin, that impede the normal process of human communication, including, but not limited to, disorders and related disorders of speech, phonology, articulation, fluency, voice, accent, verbal and written language and related non-oral/non-verbal forms of language, cognitive communication, auditory and visual processing, memory and comprehension, interactive communication, mastication, deglutition, and other oral, pharyngeal, and laryngeal sensory-motor competencies.