Children's Specialized Hospital Outpatient and Long Term Care Center | Toms River Stevens Road

At Children’s Specialized Hospital Outpatient and Long Term Care Center in Toms River Stevens Road, we understand how important it is to identify when your child may need speech therapy, and our guide can help you make that determination. Autism is a common cause for speech therapy, with many autistic children having difficulty with social communication, responding to questions, starting or ending conversations, changing topics, understanding body language, and more. Our speech therapists are knowledgeable and experienced in early intervention for autistic children, helping them to develop language and communication skills as early as possible. If your child is very quiet, only speaks a few words, or doesn’t speak at all, our guide provides you with everything you need to know about speech therapy and how it can help your child to become more independent and confident.

At Children’s Specialized Hospital Outpatient and Long Term Care Center in Toms River Stevens Road, speech therapy can help children develop nonverbal skills such as signs or gestures, form speech in a clearer way, communicate thoughts and feelings clearly, understand and respond to questions, discern facial expressions and their corresponding emotions, notice and understand body language, and improve feeding and swallowing. With speech therapy, our goal is to help your child communicate effectively with other people across all environments.