Communication Skills For Children



Excellent Communication Skills Are Essential


Communication is not just about how children talk and listen. It’s about making connections with people...being a cooperative and trusted team member...a good friend...someone people can count on...someone they respect and like. This is achieved through effective communication.

Success in school also depends on this ability to communicate. In order to exchange information efficiently and accurately, children must speak clearly without sound distortions, struggling to find the words or excessive revisions. They must listen and understand lectures and directions. They must also read literature and textbooks and write essays and reports that succinctly and tactfully make their points.

At Jodie K. Schuller & Associates, children will get practical intervention in oral and written communication. They will gain useful techniques that will make them more effective communicators and better readers and writers—rapidly and permanently—and thus advance their social and academic success.

Who Needs Speech & Language Intervention?

Children who have difficulty expressing themselves and understanding others and those with reading and writing challenges will benefit from our services. We also have programs to benefit children who need help making and keeping friends.

Auditory and Language Processing

Many Children appear to be inattentive or have “selective hearing”. They may also have difficulty expressing themselves and appear to be “searching” for words. Those individuals may be struggling with auditory or language processing problems. They may say “What?”, “Huh?” or “I don’t know” a lot and have trouble remembering and following directions.

Auditory and language processing problems affect children’s ability to express themselves and be effective conversationalists. They also interfere with academic success.

The specialists at Jodie Schuller & Associates are exceptionally trained to provide treatment that will improve processing and language functioning. With intense work in mental imagery, oral expression, sequencing and memory tasks, these children will learn to understand what they read and hear and participate meaningfully in conversations.

Reading and Written Expression

Children who have difficulty with reading and spelling were probably never taught to recognize the sound components of words, the skill that enables them to learn phonics. If their challenge is reading comprehension, they may have problems understanding vocabulary, visualizing images or organizing information as they read. Written language challenges are often related to difficulties with the pre-writing processes of brainstorming and organization and the post-writing process of editing.

Weaknesses in reading, spelling and written expression can be eliminated. The speech-language-educational specialists at Jodie K. Schuller & Associates will identify the cause of their difficulties and then help children overcome these challenges from the ground up.

Jodie Schuller & Associates Will Enable Your Children To...

Our Staff

The specialists at Jodie Schuller & Associates are professional speech and language therapists, many with over 20 years of experience in communicative disorders. Licensed by the state of California as speech-language pathologists, these therapists have also completed advanced training in voice improvement, stuttering, pronunciation, the Wilson Reading System (based on Orton Gillingham) and the Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes® including Visualizing and Verbalizing®, the Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing® Program and Seeing Stars®: Symbol Imagery™. The therapists’ backgrounds and experiences include teaching school, both regular and special education, as well as producing speech training videos, presenting workshops, and writing textbooks and programs.