Teaneck Speech & Language Center

Teaneck Speech & Language Center is a speech therapist in Teaneck, New Jersey. The center provides diagnostic and therapeutic speech and language services to children from fifteen months through high school, serving families across Bergen, Passaic, Essex, Hudson and Rockland counties. Its offerings include evaluations, diagnostic therapy, individual therapy and social skills groups, and the practice addresses articulation deficits, auditory processing deficits, decoding difficulties, dyspraxia, expressive and receptive language deficits, oral motor weakness, play skills, reading comprehension, social and pragmatic language issues, stuttering, voice concerns and writing skills. The center holds a rating of 5.00 from one review.

Founded in August 1999, the center was built by Freda Attinson, Joanne Kornbluth and Aviva (VV) Ramras, who drew on combined backgrounds in hospitals, public schools, private schools, therapeutic nurseries and rehabilitation centers. Flexibility and attention to each child's individual needs and learning style are fundamental to the practice's philosophy, and its therapists draw from a variety of approaches to reach targeted goals. Parents are treated as partners in the process, with strategies designed so therapeutic goals carry over into the natural environment, and the center maintains close relationships with members of the medical and educational communities.

Evaluations assess speech and receptive, expressive and pragmatic language skills through formal and informal measures, designed around each child's age, communication style and the concerns of parents or teachers. Comprehensive assessments may take two to five sessions of forty-five minutes to two hours each, while articulation evaluations typically last up to an hour and may include assessment of the oral musculature. Therapists also conduct on-site school observations and brief school screenings, and goals can sometimes be determined during a diagnostic therapy session rather than a full evaluation. Nadine Walker, the office manager, has been with the center since its inception.

The center sits on West Tryon Avenue, about 0.2 miles from Teaneck Road and Windsor Park, and roughly 0.3 miles from Bryant Elementary School and the West Englewood neighborhood.

Families in Teaneck and the surrounding counties have relied on the center since 1999 for speech and language care tailored to each child.