Occupational Therapy Treatment for children

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Occupational Therapy Services
The Kioko Center
Our passion is helping children with special
needs and the families and caregivers that
support them.
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The Kioko Center has been providing expert
occupational and speech therapy services to
children and young adults, ages birth to 21
years, since 2006. During that time, we have
developed the highest quality standards for our
therapies and services. Our staff are highly
trained and prepared to integrate the latest
therapy techniques into your childs sessions. We
provide comprehensive, individualized therapies
which facilitate overall development and
independence. We look to our name, Kioko, meaning
Happy Child in Japanese as a guiding principle
for our work.
Best Pediatric Speech Language
About Us
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Massachusetts Pediatric Occupational Therapy and
Speech Therapy for Children and Young Adults
At the Kioko Center we are passionate about
providing the very best OT therapy and SLP
therapy services for children and young adults.
We serve the schools, therapists, and families
that support them. We are a pediatric therapy
organization that specializes in occupational
therapy and speech therapy. Our
multidisciplinary, holistic approach gives each
child the best chance to realize their full
potential.
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Ariculation and Phonology
Articulation is the process of physically
producing speech. That might seem easy enough,
right? Actually, articulation involves the
complicated coordination of lips, tongue, teeth,
top of the mouth(palate), and jaw to produce
sounds. Even your lungs play an important part in
articulation! All of these physical forces, also
called motor functions, combine to form
syllables, words, soundsspeech. Articulation is
vital to how we communicate through speaking. An
articulation disorder is diagnosed when kids are
unable to or show difficulty in producing certain
sounds, or when they consistently mispronounce
specific consonants and vowels. Children and
teens who have articulation problems struggle
with their motor functions to physically make
accurate speech sounds. Their speech Therapy
articulation is distorted, jumbled, or mixed. The
result is the inability to form audible syllables
and words.
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• Social language disorder or pragmatic language
  disorder, is a problem related to the social
  aspects of language use and understanding .
  Social language disorders manifest in the
  following ways
• Difficulty using language socially which includes
• understanding the environment
• reading non-verbal cues
• understanding non literal language such as jokes
  and sarcasm
• Difficulty following the rules of conversation
  which includes
• maintaining appropriate eye contact
• using non verbal cues that are consistent with
  your verbal message
• greetings
• introducing a topic
• maintaining a topic
• appropriateness of topic and responses
• Social communication disorder is common in
  children. We provide evaluation, therapy and
  treatment for social language disorder contact
  Kioko Center to get speech therapy for social
  language.

Social Language
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Receptive language refers to our ability to
understand verbal and non-verbal language. In
speech therapy, receptive language refers to the
comprehension of word meanings, concepts, and
gestures. Our childrens ability to understand
receptive language helps build the foundation of
successful communication. And as parents, we all
appreciate how important communication is in
making our lives easier! Unfortunately, a
receptive language disorder results in children
struggling to understand what is said to them and
how to respond. Its a communication breakdown.
Receptive language problems limit a childs
ability to understand the world around them and
impedes their access to it. Children with
receptive language disorders may express a lack
of eye contact, frustration, unresponsiveness,
difficulty following directions, off-topic
conversations, and struggles in understanding
spoken or written language. Each child is
unique, and symptoms vary, but receptive language
problems can begin before three years of age.
Parents often notice these problems when their
children have difficulty following a storyline or
struggle with academics.
Receptive Language
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