Leigh Harter Speech Services, PLLC

My goal is to provide comprehensive speech and language assessments and develop individualized treatment programs for both children and adults with developmental or acquired brain injuries. I collaborate with care teams and families to provide evidenced-based treatment plans for you or your loved one. I encourage parent and caregiver participation in treatment sessions in order to improve progress and carryover between treatment sessions or following discharge from therapy services. When working with children or adults, I provide the caregiver with easy strategies they can use to reinforce what is learned during sessions. ​ I provide a comprehensive range of services focusing on community integration skills critical for the transition to independent living, school, work or volunteer activities are provided. I work with children and adults in most settings, depending on goals, including your home, schools, group homes, after school care facilities, and other community settings. Services will including looking at and treating the body as a whole, meaning treating not only the speech or language deficits, but considering the body in it's entirety and how it could contribute to the disorder and the underlying causes. A combination of rehabilitation and compensatory strategies are provided to aid in skill building and functional carryover to improve memory, safety and pleasure at mealtimes, interpersonal communication, literacy needs, and problem-solving skills needed for long-term success.

Speech: articulation, phonological processes/awareness Language: Expressive, receptive Apraxia: coordination of oral motor movements required to produce sounds and for adequate feeding skills Cognition: Problem-solving/reasoning, memory, attention (visual, auditory, alternating, sustained), orientation Executive Functioning Skills: organization, planning, decision-making, task initiation, breaking down tasks/goals Aural Rehabilitation: deficits caused by learning loss/impairment, auditory processing Pragmatics: social skills (eye contact, turn-taking, communicative intent, sensory processing) warranted for involvement in community events/activities Literacy Feeding/Swallowing: atypical feeding behaviors, food aversions/refusal, aspiration precautions, oral hygiene, head and neck cancer, Beckman Oral Motor trained, myofacial release trained Voice: Resonance, pitch, dysphonia, LSVT LOUD certified, Mary Massery Breathing technique trained Fluency: stuttering and cluttering