The Swain Center | Therapeutic Interventions

The Northern California Voice Project for Parkinson Disease

Child Development 101 -
Dr. Swain featured in First 5 LA article on delayed speech

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Is your child at risk? Communication Risk Factors

PACE - Processing And Cognitive Enhancement

Now Offering PACE in Santa Rosa! Hope for Struggling Students - WHEN TUTORING DOESN'T WORK! For more information on the PACE Program see our PACE Overview, or Contact Us for a complimentary PACE assessment.

Social Skills Groups

Following Michelle Garcia Winner's Think Social curriculum, The Swain Center offers social skills groups for school-aged children ages 4-7 and 8-14. Older school-aged children are considered on an individual basis. The groups are limited to 4-6 participants and scheduled once weekly for 90 minutes for 16 weeks. For more information and to schedule a complimentary screening call us at (707) 575-1468.

LSVT® Loud

Lee Silverman Voice Training - A scientifically documented efficacious program for treating voice and speech disorders in patients with Parkinson's Disease and other neurological disorders.
www.lsvt.org

Upcoming Events

Monthly Autism Support Group
Monthly Aphasia Support Group [info]
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Dr. Swain's Research

See our research in The International Journal of Listening.

Committed to state-of-the-art therapeutic interventions

Saturday
February 4th, 2012

Tomatis Outreaches

Now Enrolling!*
Las Vegas
Starts Spring 2011
San Jose
Starts June 20, 2011
*Call Lindsay Swain 1-800-830-4061 for more information

Future locations:
Reno
Orange County
Sacramento

What are Outreaches? Find out: Outreach Info

The Swain Center brings services to West Africa

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therapeutic interventions

The Swain Center offers current and best clinical treatment procedures and methodologies based on individual client needs. Specific goals and objectives are developed and are used to measure clinical efficacy.

Areas for remediation may include:

Speech

Speech sound production (articulation)
Phonology
Developmental apraxia of speech (DOS)
Oral motor dysfunction
Fluency
Tongue thrust
Accent modification

Language
Expressive and receptive vocabulary
Receptive and expressive language
Language processing
Written language skills (reading and spelling)
Cognitive linguistic skills
Auditory processing skill development
- Metacognitive strategies
- Listening therapy
- Environmental modifications
- Compensatory strategies
Social Pragmatic Skills
Michelle Garcia Winner's Think Social [info]
Imaginary play skills
Social interaction
Critical thinking and problem solving