Banner Health | Banner | University Medical Center South

At Banner Health | Banner | University Medical Center South, we understand that it can be hard to know if your child needs speech therapy. To help, we’ve created a comprehensive guide to everything you need to know about speech therapy. Our guide includes information on how to recognize if your child needs speech therapy, the critical period for language development, and how speech therapy can help your child become more independent and confident. Additionally, we provide advice on how to help your child build effective communication skills and grow their social communication skills. Visit our website to learn more and get the answers you need to make the best decision for your child.

At Banner Health, Banner University Medical Center South, we believe that speech therapy can help your child in many ways. Speech therapists can help with nonverbal skills such as signs or gestures, forming speech in a clearer way, communicating thoughts and feelings clearly, understanding and responding to questions, discerning facial expressions and their corresponding emotions, noticing and understanding body language, feeding and swallowing, and even stuttering. Our experienced and knowledgeable team of speech therapists will provide your child with the tools they need to communicate effectively in all environments.