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Institute for Communicative Disorders, Inc
- 265 State Route 59
- Naperville, Illinois
- 60564
- Phone: 1 630 922 6690
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Dr. Howard D. Schwartz has been working as a speech-language pathologist since 1974. Dr. Schwartz has clinical experiences in the public schools, hospitals, university clinics and private practice. Since receiving his master's degree in 1974, Dr. Schwartz has always had a special interest in working with children and adults who stutter. Dr. Schwartz's first job after graduating Michigan State University was at the Child Guidance Clinic of Greater Winnipeg, (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada). In addition to providing speech therapy to children with a variety of disorders within the public schools, Dr.
Social language is a very difficult part of communication for children with autism. At ICD we provide opportunities for children to work on these skills through social groups. During our hour long social group, children with autism interact with a typically developing peer in activities such as, art, play, music, story, and snack. In each of these activities pragmatic skills are introduced and practiced. These skills include: sharing, greetings, initiating play, joining in play, communicating needs and wants, and answering questions.
Stuttering is a disruption in the forward flow of speech characterized by sound and syllable repetitions (e.g. g-g-going) and sound prolongations (e.g. gooooing or ....going). While many children exhibit breakdowns in fluency, these breakdowns usually occur as repetitions of whole words (e.g. mommy, mommy, can can can I go outside) or phrases (I want, I want, I want to go.) In contrast, many children who stutter begin producing stuttering type disfluencies right from the onset of their problem.
At The Institute For Communicative Disorders we specialize in communication therapy services for children, adolescents and adults experiencing stuttering, autism and other speech and language disorders. The focus of therapy is a program that meets the uniquely individual needs of the client.