Speech Teletherapy: Motivating a Child
February 5, 2025
- Phone: (361) 792-0822
- Fax: (361) 288-4109
At Simply Speech, our speech language pathologists deliver personalized and effective speech therapy designed to enhance speech, language, and swallowing abilities for all ages.
Simply Speech, PLLC was founded on the simple principle of quality care. Our speech-language pathologists are committed to improving speech, language, and swallowing for patients in the Corpus Christi area as well as online throughout the state of Texas. From speech sound errors to language delays associated with autism to complex chromosomal disorders, our speech-language pathologists are prepared to help. Simply Speech takes pride in ethical and professional service in a fun and comfortable environment.
We combine local roots with a warm, inviting atmosphere and evidence-based methods to deliver personalized care.
Simply Speech, PLLC was founded in 2017 by Michelle Skrobarczyk, a Corpus Christi native and experienced speech-language pathologist, who turned her vision into reality. Her goal was simple: to create a welcoming, joyful space where patients receive the highest-quality speech therapy. We are proud to provide the personalized, ethical care that our community deserves.
Children can laugh, explore, and grow as they develop their communication skills at out clinic. Our adult patients receive compassionate, individualized therapy, whether they want to refine fluency skills or need support recovering from stroke, brain injury, or other communication challenges. We celebrate each patient’s progress while tailoring therapy plans to fit real-life needs—at home, work, school, and beyond.
At Simply Speech, therapy is both fun and effective! Our team stays up-to-date with evidence-based techniques to ensure patients receive the best possible care. We collaborate, innovate, and personalize every treatment plan to help our patients thrive in everyday life. Whether working on speech delays, fluency disorders, stroke recovery, or cognitive-communication skills, our team is ready.
Is our office too far for you to drive? Simply Speech offers teletherapy services to select patients unable to make a weekly drive. Please call us for information at (361) 792-0822.
Simply Speech provides personalized, evidence-based speech therapy in a warm, supportive environment where every voice is valued.
Our vision is to foster an inclusive, supportive community where every voice matters. We cherish the opportunity to provide personalized, evidence-based therapy and are committed to the continuous professional growth of our therapists, ensuring that our care meets the evolving needs of our patients.
You may be surprised to learn how much speech-language pathologists can help! We do far more than just “teaching people to talk.” Our expertise spans speech, language, cognitive skills, motor function, social communication, and swallowing disorders—helping patients of all ages overcome challenges and thrive in everyday life.
Articulation describes the accuracy by which an individual is able to produce the different sounds that make up spoken words. Phonological processing errors occur when children use immature patterns of articulation. Speech is produced by fine-tuning of motor (muscle) movements in and around the mouth. Dysarthria and apraxia are disorders that describe motor and motor planning difficulties that directly impact speech production.
Expressive Language describes the ability to make oneself understood. This can include gestures, talking, vocabulary, asking questions, and more. Disorders and delays in expressive language development could include: late talking, poor vocabulary, difficulty explaining, sentence structure errors, and more. Disorders of expressive language can occur later in life following stroke and brain injury.
Feeding and swallowing problems are known as dysphagia. Dysphagia occurs for a variety of reasons in infants, children, and adults. Safe swallowing is crucial in sustaining nutrition and encouraging growth.
Your voice is produced in the “voice box” when your vocal folds vibrate against each other upon exhalation. Disorders of the voice can cause problems with vocal volume, pitch, and quality (hoarseness, breathiness, etc.).
Closely related to language ability is cognition. Cognition includes memory, awareness, executive functioning, problem solving, etc. Cognitive impairments in adults are often present with dementia and stroke patients.
Pragmatic language involves one’s social skills. This is often an area of concern with children who have autism spectrum disorders. The speech-language pathologists at Simply Speech have treated a vast number of children with ASD and enjoys working with this population.
Fluency refers to the ease in which a speaker can produce speech. Stuttering is a fluency disorder. It can be characterized by prolongations of sounds, repetitions of sounds, blocks, and more. Stuttering can have a significant impact on a speaker’s confidence and self-esteem.
The ability to understand the intended meaning of language is receptive language. This can include understanding directions or questions, understanding complex conversation, or difficulty learning. An adult may acquire receptive language disorder due to a stroke or brain injury.
Research shows speech therapy is effective when PLAY is used to help kids thrive.
Children with speech delays make significant progress with early therapy. (ASHA, 2023)
Brain development is nearly complete by age 5, making early intervention critical. (Harvard Center on the Developing Child)
Children who receive speech and language therapy during early childhood make up to 80% faster progress.
Early-identified language delays show meaningful improvement with consistent therapy.
Getting started is simple! When you reach out, we’ll:
After gathering your information, our team gets to work! Here’s what happens next:
Your journey officially begins! At your first visit, your therapist will:
At Simply Speech, we provide a welcoming environment and personalized care tailored to each patient’s unique needs. Our experienced speech-language pathologists combine evidence-based practices with a compassionate approach to help patients achieve their communication and swallowing goals.
“The brain is wider than the sky.”
– Emily Dickinson
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”
– Dr. Seuss
“You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.”
– Brene Brown
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
— Oscar Wilde
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Is our office too far for you to drive? Simply Speech offers teletherapy services to select patients unable to make a weekly drive. Please call us for information at (361) 792-0822.
At Simply Speech, PLLC, our mission is to provide ethical, professional, and personalized speech, language, and swallowing therapy to patients in Corpus Christi and across Texas, fostering meaningful progress in a fun and supportive environment.
1828 Waldron Rd, Corpus Christi, TX 78418