Services

Pediatric Services

Naturally Speaking will provide comprehensive, family-centered evaluation and evidence-based treatment for children of all ages. Specific focus is on making therapy engaging and play-based while building functional communication skills.

  • Assessment: evaluate your child’s speech sound inventory, phonological patterns, and oral-motor mechanics to pinpoint specific sound errors, substitutions, or omissions compared to age-matched developmental milestones.
  • Treatment: focus on targeted articulation drills, auditory discrimination, and visual cues to help your child produce target sounds correctly and generalize them into conversational speech.

Expressive & Receptive Language Delays

  • Assessment: Through standardized testing, structured tasks, and behavioral observation, Naturally Speaking will assess your child’s ability to understand spoken language (receptive) and use words, grammar, and sentences effectively (expressive).
  • Treatment: Using child-led play, storytelling, and structured language modeling, we expand vocabulary, build sentence complexity, improve comprehension, and enhance daily communication skills.

Augmentative & Alternative Communication (AAC)

  • Assessment: We evaluate your child’s motor, cognitive, and linguistic abilities alongside family preferences to determine the most effective communication tools, ranging from low-tech picture systems to high-tech speech-generating devices.
  • Treatment: We provide hands-on training for the child, parents, and educators to integrate the AAC system seamlessly into everyday routines, empowering your child to express their thoughts, wants, and needs.

Social Communication & Pragmatics

  • Assessment: We observe how your child interacts in social contexts, assessing nonverbal communication, conversational turn-taking, topic maintenance, perspective-taking, and problem-solving skills.
  • Treatment: Through guided social coaching, peer role-playing, and structured scenarios, we help children navigate social interactions, build meaningful friendships, and understand social nuances.

Adult Services

We provide compassionate, evidence-based assessment and rehabilitation for adults recovering from neurological events, managing neurodegenerative conditions, or seeking to enhance their voice and communication skills. Our individualized approach focuses on functional goals that restore independence and quality of life.

Aphasia & Post-Stroke Rehabilitation

  • Assessment: We evaluate expressive and receptive language abilities, including spoken word retrieval, auditory comprehension, reading, and written communication, to identify the specific profile and severity of aphasia.
  • Treatment: Therapy utilizes restorative tasks and compensatory strategies to improve language recovery, enhance functional communication for daily activities, and train family members in supportive conversation techniques.

Cognitive-Communication Disorders (TBI, Memory & Dementia)

  • Assessment: We assess functional cognitive-linguistic skills, including attention, executive functioning, orientation, memory, problem-solving, and organization as they impact daily routines and safety.
  • Treatment: We implement goal-oriented cognitive retraining, external memory aids, safety strategies, and environmental modifications to support cognitive independence and help clients navigate daily tasks successfully.

Dysphagia / Adult Swallowing Therapy

  • Assessment: Speaking Naturally will provide a comprehensive clinical swallow evaluation to assess oral-motor function, swallow timing, reflex strength, and safety with various food and liquid consistencies.
  • Treatment: Sessions incorporate targeted swallow maneuvers, oral-motor strengthening, therapeutic dietary modifications, and posture adjustments to ensure safe, comfortable, and efficient swallowing.

Stuttering & Fluency Enhancement

  • Assessment: Analysis of speech fluency patterns, environmental triggers, speaking situations, and the personal or social impact stuttering has on your daily life and communication confidence.
  • Treatment: Therapy focuses on fluency shaping techniques, stuttering modification strategies, and confidence-building approaches to help you communicate effortlessly and comfortably across professional and social settings.

ASHA Practice Portal on Autism Spectrum Disorder: Offers evidence-based guidelines on speech, language, and social communication assessment and treatment for individuals with ASD.

CDC Autism Spectrum Disorder Information: Provides clear educational information on developmental milestones, early screening signs, and diagnostic guidelines.

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) ASD Overview: Details symptoms, research, treatment options, and support networks for individuals across the lifespan.

Speech and Language Therapy Services in Christiansburg, VA

Every plan at Speaking Naturally starts with listening. After a thorough assessment, Jennifer Bradley designs therapy around your goals, your schedule, and your daily routines. Sessions are offered virtually and in person, at home or in your community, for children and adults.

How We Can Help

Naturally Speaking will provide comprehensive, family-centered evaluation and evidence-based treatment for children of all ages. Specific focus is on making therapy engaging and play-based while building functional communication skills.

  • Assessment: evaluate your child’s speech sound inventory, phonological patterns, and oral-motor mechanics to pinpoint specific sound errors, substitutions, or omissions compared to age-matched developmental milestones.
  • Treatment: focus on targeted articulation drills, auditory discrimination, and visual cues to help your child produce target sounds correctly and generalize them into conversational speech.

Speech Delays and Articulation

Children who are hard to understand or who say sounds differently from their peers can improve with consistent, playful practice. We target specific sounds, build clear speech habits, and give parents simple activities to use at home.

  • Sound production and articulation
  • Early speech development
  • Home practice plans for families

Expressive and Receptive Language Delays

Language is more than words. It is understanding what others say and sharing your own ideas. We help children and adults grow vocabulary, build longer sentences, and follow directions with confidence.

  • Expand vocabulary
  • Build sentence complexity
  • Improve comprehension

Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)

AAC gives people a way to communicate when speech alone is not enough. We help you choose, learn, and use communication tools so that self-expression becomes part of everyday life, not just therapy time.

  • Support self-expression
  • Increase communication independence
  • Integrate AAC into daily routines

Aphasia and Post-Stroke Rehabilitation

A stroke or brain injury can change how a person speaks, understands, reads, or writes. Therapy focuses on rebuilding language skills and on practical strategies that help conversations flow again at home, with family, and in the community.

  • Improve language recovery
  • Strengthen daily communication
  • Support greater independence

Stuttering and Fluency Enhancement

Stuttering is not a sign of nervousness or low confidence. Our approach helps children and adults speak more smoothly and, just as importantly, feel more comfortable when they speak.

  • Improve speech fluency
  • Build communication confidence
  • Speak more comfortably

Voice Concerns

Hoarseness, vocal strain, and a tired voice should not be ignored. We evaluate how you use your voice and teach healthy habits that protect it.

Feeding and Swallowing Therapy

Jennifer is a certified VitalStim provider and supports swallowing needs across the lifespan, from feeding milestones in young children to swallowing challenges in adults after illness or injury.

How it works

How Therapy Works

Reach out.

Call 540-818-4114 or send the contact form to book a free consultation.

Assessment.

We look closely at speech, language, voice, or swallowing, plus your history and goals.

Your personal plan.

You get clear goals and a schedule that fits your family.

Therapy and progress.

Sessions happen virtually or in person, and we review progress often so you always know where you stand.

Where we see clients

Virtual, Home-Based, and Community Appointments

Therapy works best when it happens where life happens. Choose online sessions from your own living room, in-person visits at home, or community-based appointments. We serve Christiansburg and the surrounding New River Valley area.

Ready to Take the First Step?

Tell us what you are noticing, and we will guide you from there. Call 540-818-4114 or request your free consultation online.

Helpline: 540-818-4114