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Ignite Speech Therapy is a private practice clinic serving the greater Dallas area. Here at Ignite Speech Therapy we not only provide traditional speech, language and cognition services but we also see those who have feeding and dysphagia challenges. We use innovative and out of the box thinking and therapies such as myofunctional therapy and NMES, to help you eat, speak, sleep, think and breathe better.
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Ignite's Specialties
Oral Myofunctional Therapy
Patterns involving oral and orofacial musculature that interfere with normal growth, development, or function of orofacial structures, or call attention to themselves (Mason, n.d.A)
Bilingual Language Evaluations
Language involves receptive & expressive aspects of language. Having trouble understanding what others say is a receptive, problems sharing our thoughts, ideas, and feelings is an expressive language disorder.
True disorders also must persist in all languages. Not assessing in all languages may lead to misdiagnosis. (ASHA)
Feeding
The process involving any aspect of eating or drinking, including gathering and preparing food and liquid for intake, sucking or chewing, and swallowing in infants, folders or children (Arvedson & Brodsky, 2002)
Speech
Expressive production is what we say sounds and put sounds together into words. Other words for these problems are articulation or phonological disorders, apraxia of speech, or dysarthria (ASHA)
Dysphagia
A swallowing disorder may lead to poor nutrition, weight loss, and other health problems. difficulty swallowing can look like coughing with food or liquids, drooling, ineffective chewing or managing foods, which may be due to a store or cognitive impairment (ASHA)
Certified Lactation Consultant
Breastfeeding counseling and management support to families who are thinking about breastfeeding or who have questions or problems during the course of breastfeeding/lactation (ALPP)