855 Elm Ave
Long Beach, CA 90813
Phones: 562-435-8381, 714-633-1920
Fax: 562-436-9891
Board of Directors
Mahmoud Ghaffari, 32 KCCH
LBSR CLC Board President
The Long Beach Scottish Rite Childhood Language Center is committed to providing high quality services to preschool children with language disorders. Our primary goals are 1) early identification and treatment of language disorders and 2) parent training.
It is our belief that early intervention contributes to the possible prevention of further delays and curtails the development of secondary problems such as behavior, emotional and learning problems.
Parent training is a vital and unique part of our program. By watching
and participating in the therapy sessions, parents learn how to work with their children at home.
A toddler or pre-school age child may have a speech and /or language problem if he/she:
Is slow acquiring first words and/or short sentences
Uses immature or incorrect grammatical patterns
Is not understood easily by others
Demonstrates difficulty learning new words
Has difficulty retrieving words to use in sentences
Is easily frustrated
Has a short attention span for learning, listening and/or problem solving.
Has difficulty following directions or following conversation
History of middle ear infections
Clinic Program
Diagnostic Evaluations
For children approximately 18 months until school age
Speech and Language Therapy
Provided to preschool-aged children with specific language disorders.
Children are provided with up to 18 months of therapy.
The Clinic does not provide services to children already receiving therapy or children eligible for special education services in schools.
Children are seen in one of two programs
Itinerant Therapy: The child is seen one to three times per week in individual or small group therapy.
Parent Training: A group program for parents and their children that provides "hands-on" training for working on pre-verbal and verbal skills at home.
Hours
Full Calendar Year, Tuesday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 3:45 PM
