Speech therapy focuses on supporting foundational language skills, along with related cognitive skills such as memory and attention, that contribute to reading, reading comprehension and written expression.
For children who struggle to read at grade level, speech therapy can help build skills such as sound awareness, vocabulary, sentence structure, and understanding what they read.
Support may also include helping children organize ideas, write complete sentences and paragraphs, and use language more clearly in classroom tasks such as story retells, and written responses.