Pediatric Therapy Services in Knoxville, TN
SPEECH • LANGUAGE • EARLY INTERVENTION • FEEDING • SWALLOWING • MYOFUNCTIONAL • AURAL REHABILITATION • VOICE • DYSLEXIA • LITERACY
Evaluations
We care about the whole child and their whole story. Our evaluations are designed to help us learn about your child’s interests, skills, and challenges through a combination of:
Observations during play
Parent interviews and questionnaires
Standardized assessments
We’ll thoughtfully match your child with their best-fit therapist— so you’ll have access to an expert who specializes in your child’s specific speech, language, or feeding needs.
Our Approach to Therapy
At Great Adventures Therapy, we know that no two children are alike. Every session is tailored to meet your child where they are and help them grow in their own unique way.
Our speech therapists make learning feel like play and focus on giving your child a “just-right” challenge. Your child will feel seen, supported, and excited to come back each week.
We also encourage teamwork between parents, therapists, and other specialists. The best therapy happens when everyone is working together!
Speech Therapy
If your child has difficulty saying words or sounds correctly, speech therapy can help! Using games, toys, crafts, or movement activities, our speech therapy sessions will be tailored to help them:
Speak more clearly
Move their tongue and lips to make accurate speech sounds
Reduce frustration
Feel confident in social and academic settings
Language Therapy
Some children have a hard time understanding what is said to them, learning new words, or using clear sentences to communicate with their family and friends. Our play-based language therapy sessions will help your child:
Follow directions
Grow their vocabulary
Build complete sentences
Participate and learn in the classroom
Early Intervention
For babies and toddlers, speech therapy focuses on building language skills within daily life routines. Through a combination of purposeful play and parent coaching, your child will learn to:
Respond to their name
Understand what others say
Express their wants, needs, and feelings with less frustration
Put 2+ words together
Socially engage with others
Picky Eating • Oral Motor Delays • Pediatric Dysphagia • Sensory Aversions • Breastfeeding • Bottle Feeding • Lactation Support
Feeding Therapy for Kids
If your child struggles with latching, chewing, swallowing, or trying new foods, our feeding therapists can help. We take time to understand the whole picture, including your child's medical history, sensory preferences, oral motor skills, and family routines, so we can create a plan that's just right for them.
Feeding therapy will help your child:
Chew and swallow food safely
Explore and eat new foods
Gain weight and improve nutrition
Enjoy mealtimes without stress
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Your feeding therapist will tailor each session to meet your family’s unique needs and goals.
For younger children, feeding therapy often looks like sensory play… because that's how they learn best! Older children may focus more on building confidence, making choices, and learning to advocate for themselves.
Parents are involved every step of the way so you’ll leave each session feeling confident about how to support your child at mealtimes.
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At Great Adventures Therapy, we specialize in addressing pediatric feeding challenges including:
Oral motor delays
Picky eating
Sensory food aversions
Medical feeding disorders
Infant breastfeeding or bottle feeding challenges (birth-age 1)
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If your family is navigating feeding challenges, please know that you’re not alone.
Pediatric feeding disorders (PFDs) affect more than 1 in 37 children under the age of 5 in the United States. Roughly 80% of children with developmental disabilities experience some level of feeding difficulties in their lifetime.
Tongue Thrust • Mouth Breathing • Tongue Ties • Dental Issues • Thumb-Sucking • Poor Sleep • Feeding Issues • Speech Errors
Myofunctional Therapy (Ages 4+)
Orofacial myofunctional therapy is like physical therapy, but for the muscles of the face! Our myofunctional therapists specialize in retraining the posture of the face with four simple rules: lips closed, teeth apart, tongue up, and breathe through your nose.
Myofunctional therapy uses personalized exercises, techniques, and education to help your child:
Improve breathing, swallowing, and sleep
Make clear and accurate speech sounds
Reduce oral habits (like thumb-sucking)
Avoid future dental and orthodontic issues
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Great Adventures Therapy provides myofunctional therapy to address breathing, swallowing, sleep, and speech challenges related to:
Tongue thrust
Mouth breathing
Immature chewing patterns
Dentition issues
Thumb/digit sucking
Poor sleep quality
Impaired feeding/oral motor skills
Underlying speech sound errors
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At Great Adventures Therapy, we typically begin treating children between 4-5 years of age. Under the age of 4, myo-related concerns are best treated with feeding and/or speech therapy.
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Yes! We do formal assessments for tongue ties in which a therapist trained in identification of restricted lingual tissue will complete an oral exam and report findings.
At Great Adventures Therapy, we know that tongue FUNCTION is what matters most! We specialize in looking beyond the appearance of your child’s tongue tie to see how it’s impacting their breathing, feeding, and/or speech.
For infants, we work closely with a team of other professionals to identify and treat oral tissue ties—especially when breast/bottle feeding is impacted. If your baby is struggling with feeding, a tongue-tie evaluation might be the next best step.
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Yes! Myofunctional therapy takes a team approach. We work closely with parents, pediatric dentists, ENTs, chiropractors, lactation consultants, and physical therapists to get the best outcomes.
Hearing Loss • Hearing Aid Placement • Cochlear Implants • Auditory Processing Disorders • Auditory Training
Aural Rehabilitation for Kids
We provide specialized speech therapy for children with hearing loss and those who use hearing technology. Our speech therapists create auditory-rich environments to support listening skills, speech production, and language development for children of all hearing levels.
Aural (re)habilitation sessions use fun and engaging activities to help your child:
Understand the world around them
Differentiate among speech sounds
Become aware of sounds in their environment
Improve speech articulation
Develop age-level receptive and expressive language skills
Voice Disorders • Vocal Nodules • Polyps • Vocal Fold Paralysis
Voice Therapy for Kids
In voice therapy, we use a combination of playful activities and structured exercises to teach your child how to strengthen their voice, use their voice safely, and prevent long-term damage to their vocal cords.
Voice therapy will help your child:
Improve their voice quality
Reduce tension, hoarseness, or breathiness
Use proper breath support when speaking
Control their pitch and volume
Understand how to care for their voice
Dyslexia • Reading • Writing • Spelling • Learning Disabilities
Literacy Therapy for Kids
When children have difficulty with the foundations of language, such as phonological awareness, it’s not just their speaking or listening that suffers— their ability to read, write, and learn can be significantly affected.
Literacy therapy provides targeted support to help your child:
Understand letter sounds and phonics
Read, spell, and rhyme words
Improve reading comprehension and reading fluency (accuracy and speed)
Experience social and academic success
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A speech-language pathologist (SLP) has extensive knowledge in the foundations of language learning. Instead of just teaching the "how to" of reading, SLPs can find the root cause of a child’s difficulty with reading, and support underlying skills from the ground up.
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Yes! If your child is reading below age- and grade-level expectations, our speech therapists can help find the root cause of their difficulties. Since dyslexia is characterized as a “language-based” learning disability, we support a whole network of skills that are important for reading, writing, and spelling.
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Absolutely. School-based reading intervention and private literacy therapy work hand in hand. Because our sessions are 1-on-1 and individualized to your child’s specific needs, we provide targeted support that complements what your child is learning at school. Your child will make quicker progress toward reading confidently at grade level!
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