Nature's Communication Center  

• Holistic therapy- Addressing a client as multi-faceted; detailing the physiological speech and language components, developmental/acquired speech and language acquisition, counseling emphasis for client and families focusing on feelings, attitudes, behaviors related, engulfed within a variety of functional environments, that targets communication partner training (i.e. any person who has a significant role in the client’s life)

• Integrated approach- Utilizing emerging, progressing, and acquired skills with in a large variety of functional environments, such as; clinical office, integrated speech facility (i.e. art room, kitchen, sensory room), home, school/work, organized/structured group therapies, social/spontaneous group activities, extra-circular activities, etc.

• Intensive structure- Research has shown that when the frequency is increased skill acquisition and generalization increases, which decreases regression and client/communication partner frustration. Nature’s Communication will require a commitment of 6 hours of therapy a month to allot for the holistic integrated approach to be successful.

Everything is connected in Nature,

just like speech!

Speech& Language Terms:

• AAA
• AAC
• AAE African American English
• ABA
• Accent Modification
• ADHD
• Agnosia
• Agraphia
• Alaryngeal speech
• Alexia
• ALS Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
• Alzheimer's disease
• American Indian Hand Talk AMER-IND
• APA American Psychiatric Association
• American Indian Hand Talk AMER-IND
• APA American Psychiatric Association
• American Indian Hand Talk AMER-IND
• Angelman Syndrome
• APA American Psychiatric Association
• ASLAmerican Sign Language
• ASHA American Speech Hearing Association
• ADA Americans with Disabilites Act
• Ankyloglossia (tongue tie)
• Aphasia organization
• Anosagnosia
• AOSApraxia of speech-CAS see below
• Apert syndrome
• Aphasia-types
• Aphonia
• Articulation
• Articulation Developmental Chart
• Artificial larynx
• Asperger's syndrome
• Asphyxia
• Ataxia
• Athetoid Cerebral Palsy
• Audiogram
• Audiologists WA
• Auditory processing
• Aural atresia
• Aural rehab
• Autism Spectrum Disorder
• MAAP-ASD, AS, and PDD
• Autism Speaks
• Baker/Ryan's Monterey Artic program
• Birth to 3 King Co
• Broca's Aphasia
• Central Auditory disorders
• Central electroauditory prosthesis
• Cerebral Palsy in children
• Cerebral Palsy, United
• Circle of Willis
• Childhood Apriaxia of speech
• Cleft palate
• Closed head injuries
• Cluttering

• Cochlear implants

• Coarticulation

• Codeswitching
• Cognate pairs
• Conduction Aphasia

• Conductive hearing loss
• Congenital Laryngeal stridor
• Congenital palatopharyngeal incompetence
• Contact Ulcers
• Counseling WA
• Craniofacial anomalies
• Craniosynostosis
• Cri du Chat syndrome
• Crouzon syndrome
• Cued speech
• DAF Delayed auditory feedback
• DAS Developmental apraxia of speech,
• DAT Dementia of Alzheimer type
• Deaf Culture
• Dementia
• Denasality
• Devoicing
• Diabetes
• Dialect
• Dieticians WA
• Diplegia
• Diplophonia
• Disconnection syndromes
• Downsyndrome
• Dwarfism
• Dysarthria
• Dysfluency/Fluency
• Dysphagia
• Dysphonia
• Dystonia
• Echolalia
• EEG Electroencephalography
• EGG Electroglottography
• Elfin-face syndrome
• Encephalitis
• Endoscopy
• Episodic paroxysmal laryngospasm
• Esophageal speech
• Evidence-based practice
• Eye-blink encoding
• Facial recognition deficits
• Fading
• FAE Fetal alcohol effects
• FAS Fetal alcohol syndrome
• Fasciculi
• Fingerspelling
• Figurative language
• Fluency disorders
• Fluency modification
• Fluency shaping
• Fragile X syndrome
• Frontal lisp
• GERD Gastroesphageal Reflex disease
• Geriatric voice
• Global delay
• Global aphasia
• Glottal fry
• Granuloma
• Hard palate
• HIPAA Health Insurance Portability/Accountability Act
• Hearing
• Hearing Aids WA
• Hemangioma
• Hemiplegia
• Hoarseness
• Hurlers syndrome
• Hyperkeratosis
• Hypernasality
• Hyper/Hypokinetic Dysarthria
• Hypotonia
• Hysterical aphonia
• IEP Individualized education plan
• IFSP Individualized family service plans
• NOVA Independent nonverbal oral apraxia
• Ischemic strokes
• Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease
• Joint reference
• Juvenile papillomas
• Kaposis sarcoma
• Landau-Kleffner syndrome
• Laryngeal dyskinesia
• Laryngeal trauma
• Laryngeal web
• Laryngectomy
• Laryngitis
• Laryngomalacia
• Lateral Lisp
• Left neglect
• Leukoplakia
• Literacy development
• Lou Gehrigs disease
• Mand-model
• McCabe and Bradleys tx approach for language disorders
• McDonalds sensory-motor approach
• Menieres disease
• Mental retardation MR
• Microtia
• Mixed dysarthrias
• Mixed hearing loss
• MTA Mixed transcortical aphasia
• Moebius syndrome
• Monopitch
• Monoplegia
• Mutational falsetto
• Myasthenia gravis
• Nasogastric feeding
• Negative reinforcers
• Neglect or abuse
• Noonan syndrome
• Open-head injuries
• Otitis media (ear infections)
• Otoclerosis
• Ototoxic drugs
• Papillomas
• Parallel talk
• Parkinsons disease
• PE tubes
• PECS Picture Exchange Communication System
• Pediatricians WA
• PDD Pervasive developmental disorders
• PT Physical therapists WA
• Pica
• Picks disease
• Pierre-Robin syndrome
• Prader-Willi syndrome
• Pragmatics
• Prelinguistic skills
• Premack-type symbols
• Prenatal factors
• Presbycusis
• Progressive Bulbar palsy
• Psychologists WA
• Psychogenic voice disorder
• Puberphonia
• Pulmonary specialists WA
• Quadriplegia
• Reinforcement
• Retrocochlear disorders
• Retts syndrome
• Right hemisphere syndrome
• Russell-Silver syndrome
• SCERTS model
• SEE Signed Exact English
• Self talk
• Semantics
• Shaping
• Shimmer
• Sickle cell anemia
• SLP Speech Language Pathology WA
• Spanish-influenced English
• Spasmodic dysphonia
• Spastic CP
• Spastic dysarthria
• Standardized test scores
• Stenosis
• Strokes
• Stuttering Foundation of America, National Stuttering Foundation
• Syntax
• Tadoma method
• TBI Traumatic Brain Injury
• TDD telecommunication devices for the Deaf
• Teflon injuctions
• Tinnitus
• Transcortical motor aphasia
• Tourettes syndrome
• Toxoplasmosis
• Treacher Collins syndrome
• Turner syndrome
• Ulcers
• Unilateral paralysis
• Unstressed-syllable deletion
• Usher syndrome
• Van Ripers approach
• Velocardiofacial syndrome
• Videofluoroscopy
• Vocal nodules
• Weak-syllable deletion
• Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome
• Wernickes aphasia
• Williams syndrome
• Wilsons disease
• Word-retrieval problems
• Writing problems
• Xerostomia