Trails Center offers screenings, comprehensive evaluations, habilitation, rehabilitation, and consultative services for individuals with communicative disorders. Our clients include infants, preschoolers and school age children. Most of the children referred to the center exhibit communication problems such as:

	Articulation disorder or the incorrect production of speech sounds due to faulty placement, timing, direction, pressure, speed or integration of the movement of the oral structures
	Fluency disorders such as stuttering, the condition in which the flow of speech is interrupted
	Voice disorder or the deviation in pitch, intensity and quality, or other basic vocal attribute which consistently interferes with communication, draws unfavorable attention and adversely affects the speaker or the listener
	Language disorder or difficulty in the production and/or reception of linguistic units, regardless of environment, which may range from total absence of speech to minor variance with syntax (grammar); meaningful language may be produced, but with limited content e.g. reduced vocabulary, restricted verbal formulations, omission of articles, prepositions, etc.

Our clients are accepted upon the referral of medical doctors, neuropsychologists, educators and allied health professionals. Clients are accepted by appointment. An application is considered complete when the referral letter and the center's case history form have been submitted. These forms should be submitted to the center on the day of the scheduled diagnostic evaluation. Initial evaluation may take 1-2 sessions. Results are discussed with the child's family and a written report is provided. If therapy is indicated, the child's family is advised regarding the schedule and frequency of therapy sessions. The therapy program is also discussed with the child's parents to make sure that they understand the goals set for the child.