NYS Early Intervention Program | Otsego County Health Department

If you’re wondering if your child needs speech therapy, the NYS Early Intervention Program and Otsego County Health Department have you covered. Our guide to speech therapy can help you determine if your child needs help with social communication. We provide information about common communication issues like responding to questions, starting conversations, understanding body language, and more. Speech therapy is an important part of early intervention for autistic children and can help them develop language and communication skills. If your child is very quiet, has a limited vocabulary, or does not speak at all, speech therapy could be a beneficial option. We can help you understand the importance of language development and the critical period in the brain for language development. Visit our website to learn more about how our NYS Early Intervention Program and Otsego County Health Department can help you determine if your child needs speech therapy.

At NYS Early Intervention Program | Otsego County Health Department, we understand that speech therapy can help your child become a better communicator across all environments. Our team of speech therapists can help your child 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 corresponding emotions, noticing and understanding body language, feeding, and swallowing. With the help of speech therapy, your child can learn to communicate effectively.

Contact Phone number is (607) 547-6474.

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