Speech Therapy in Santa Monica and West Los Angeles
Sound Bite offers in-home, in-school, in-facility, and virtually-based services in Santa Monica and the greater Westside of Los Angeles for clients of all ages.
Services can benefit for your toddler if:
They present with fewer words, signs, sounds, and/or social behaviors than developmentally typical
They have been diagnosed with a developmental disorder or disability
They present with noticeable spoken disfluencies outside of typical age ranges
They have a cleft lip or palate
They have regular difficulties at meal times with certain foods, textures, and/or routines
They have a history of tongue tie, mouth breathing, adenoidectomy, frenectomy, ear tubes, hearing loss or impairment, and/or pre-term delivery
Services can benefit your school-aged child if:
They have regular difficulty with executive functioning skills that can impact daily life, homework, and school performance (e.g. planning, organizing, self-monitoring, work completion, knowledge checks, time management)
They have regular difficulty with certain sounds, vocabulary, age appropriate play and engagement in peer relationships, self-advocacy, problem solving, and/or assignments that involve more reading, writing, speaking, and listening-based tasks
You are seeking support from an SLP in the IEP (Individualized Education Plan) or the IEE (Individualized Educational Evaluation) process and provider representation in related meetings
Services can benefit you or your adult loved one if:
You/they have a history of stroke, traumatic brain injury, neurodegenerative disease, or other medical conditions that impacts language, speech production, swallowing, breathing, cognition and memory, executive functioning, interpersonal skills, fluency, and/or voice
You/they have been diagnosed with or suspect a tongue thrust, forward head posture, sleep apnea (snoring), TMD (clenching, grinding, temporomandibular disorder), craniofacial dysfunction, tongue tie, deviated septum, over/underbite, or other related airway dysfunction
You/they are seeking gender affirmation therapy to masculinize/feminize the qualities of the voice during or after a surgical or non-surgical change in sexual/gender presentation
You/they are experiencing age-related hearing loss, communication difficulties secondary to hearing impairment, and/or difficulties managing hearing devices
