History
We have two Speech Language Pathologists who have achieved a Certification in Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy through the International Association of Orofacial Myology (IAOM), a certification that only a select few individuals in the world have. Our therapists are 2 of the only few in all of San Diego with these joint degrees. Dentists and orthodontists refer to us for speech articulation, tongue thrust/forward rest posture of the tongue, and feeding challenges with their patients. We have therapists that have hospital based experience as well as training in a variety of techniques including: Michelle Garcia Winner's Social Cognitive approach to social skills, DIR/Floortime, PROMPT for speech motor planning challenges, Hanen, Orofacial Myology, thumb sucking programs, Kaufman for apraxia, PECS, augmentative devices, and a variety of other approaches.
Specialties
San Diego Center For Speech Therapy & Myofunctional Therapy provides comprehensive speech, language, social/pragmatic, and orofacial myofunctional evaluations and therapy. Our therapists are fun, energetic, and creative. We work with individuals of all ages (from 1 year through adults), and we specialize in treating people with orofacial myofunctional disorders including tongue thrust, mouth breathing, snoring, sleep apnea, sleep breathing and airway issues, tongue tie and other tethered oral tissues, feeding issues, dental/orthodontic issues related to myofunctional disorders, and parafunctional habits such as thumb/finger sucking, pacifier use, nail biting, and more. We have two offices, one in Carmel Valley and one in Mission Beach. We also have teamed up with physical therapists, and we treat and refer together in order to better help our patients. Our physical therapists have training in myofunctional therapy, take nearly all PPO/POS insurances, and are able to help treat accompanying airway issues, posture issues, TMJ problems, migraines/headaches, neck issues, forward head posture, and other dysfunctional breathing patterns (to name a few), all of which are related to myofunctional disorders and common in most of the patients we see.