Speech Therapy
Monkey Mouths was founded to provide families with a unique, supportive environment for their child’s speech therapy needs, and our team of expert therapists is trained to diagnose and treat each individual child.
Our Speech-language pathologists treat expressive and receptive communication challenges in children that cause difficulty in verbal communication. Speech-language pathologists can also evaluate and treat oral motor concerns (chewing and swallowing), voice, fluency, articulation, and social language skills.
For speech therapy, Monkey Mouths currently treats patients in the following areas:
Articulation Disorders: Difficulty producing specific sounds, trouble being understood, fast talker
Bilingual Therapy: Spanish (Coppell, Ft. Worth and Hurst locations, Frisco coming soon) Portuguese (Coppell location)
Childhood Apraxia of Speech: (CAS) is a motor-speech disorder. A child with CAS knows what they want to say. The problem is not how the child thinks but how the brain tells the mouth muscles to move.
Feeding Disorders: Oral and Pharyngeal Dysphagia, Sensory-Motor Feeding Issues, Picky Eaters/Limited Diet, Oral-Myofunctional Therapy, difficulty with breast or bottle feeding, Fiberoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing (FEES)
Hearing Differences: Auditory Verbal Therapy (Ft. Worth and Southlake locations), Cochlear Implants, Hearing Aids, Sign Language
Fluency Disorders (Stuttering)
Language Disorders: Expressive and Receptive Language Disorders
Augmentative Communication with low-tech and high-tech systems
Myofunctional Therapy: In conjunction with the medical team for obstructive sleep apnea, sleep disordered breathing, snoring, ankyloglossia, tongue thrust and tempomandibular joint disorder (TMJ), tethered oral tissue pre- and post-care exercises
Voice Disorders: Velo-Pharyngeal Incompetence, Hypo/Hyper Nasality, Vocal Cord Dysfunction, Vocal Nodules, Continuous Cough
New to Monkey Mouths?
1. Call us at (817) 479-7019 to schedule an evaluation, where a therapist determines whether your child would benefit from therapy.
2. Moving forward, the first therapy appointment is scheduled, and 3- and 6-month goals are set for your child. We discuss progress and goals together, and your family is integrated along every step of the therapy journey.
“Our whole family LOVES Monkey Mouths! We go for therapy twice weekly and are always greeted with happy smiles…I couldn’t recommend this place enough.”
Specialized Speech-Language Treatment Techniques
Apraxia Techniques/Speech Intelligibility Techniques:
Sound Card System (all therapists are trained in SCS)
PROMPT (Prompts for Restructuing Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets; all therapists are PROMPT trained)
Kaufman Apraxia System/Nancy Kaufman (all therapists are trained in the Kaufman Apraxia System)
Talk Tools Oral Placement Therapy
Dynamic Temporal and Tactile Cueing/Edythe Strand PhD, CCC-SLP
NDT Techniques
Autism Techniques/Social Language Techniques:
Vincent Carbone PhD, ABA
Mark Sundberg PhD, BCBA
Social Thinking by Michelle Garcia Winner M.S., CCC-SLP
The SCERTS Model (Social Communication, Emotional Regulation and Transactional Support)
Patrick McGreevy PhD, BCBA
Hanen Programs
Hearing Differences/Cochlear Implants:
Auditory Verbal Therapy by a Certified AVT (Consults in all clinics, therapy in our Ft. Worth Location)
Sign Language
Fluency Techniques:
Preschool Fluency Training by Nina Reardon-Reeves M.S., CCC-SLP
Reading Techniques:
Visualizing and Verbalizing by Lindamood-Bell
Literacy Speaks
Seeing Stars by Lindamood-Bell
Augmenative Communication Techniques:
PECS
Pragmatic Organization Dynamic Display (PODD) Books
Comprehensive Augmentative Communication Evaluations for Low-Tech and High-Tech Communication Devices