To get started:

• Contact us, schedule an appointment or fill out the referral form to discuss your concerns.

• Complete new client intake form.

• Provide all the relevant medical history, family history, therapy and school records.

• Schedule a 60 minute comprehensive evaluation based on needs.

• Schedule consultations if evaluations or treatments are not needed.

• Review the evaluation results and receive personalized recommendations.

• Begin individualized therapy tailored to your child's needs and goals at your preferred location, time and mode.

• Receive ongoing family education, home strategies, and progress updates throughout therapy.

• 30 mins or 60 mins for therapy services.

Have a speech-language evaluation completed within the past year and from another facility/school?

• We can review the evaluation, begin one-on-one therapy, and modify the treatment plan as your child's needs and progress evolve.

Early intervention:

• Incorporating play-based approaches to support functional communication development.

• Use gestures, visual supports, and AAC to promote prelinguistic communication skills.

Therapy focuses on strengthening expressive and receptive language skills:

• Improve understanding and following directions

• Expand vocabulary

• Increase utterance length and sentence complexity

• Asking and answering WH-questions (who, what, where, when, why, and how)

• Strengthen functional communication skills for everyday interactions

• Improve comprehension of spoken language

• Enhance conversation skills

• Increase usage of context clues

• Retelling stories/events

• Address articulation difficulties and speech sound patterns that impact intelligibility such as /r/, /s/ etc.

• Build confidence when speaking during everyday conversations.

• Practice sounds through fun, engaging, and play-based activities.

• AAC evaluations to identify communication tools that best fit your child’s needs.

• Support with AAC systems, including TouchChat and TD Snap.

• Guidance with selecting and obtaining an AAC device.

• Parent and caregiver coaching to help build confidence using AAC at home and in daily routines.

• Collaboration with your child’s care team to create consistent communication support.

• Support with initiating, maintaining, and ending conversations appropriately.

• Strategies to develop topic maintenance and reciprocal conversations.

• Support with perspective-taking and understanding others’ thoughts, feelings, and viewpoints.

• Development of social problem-solving and communication skills.

• Building confidence in social interactions across everyday settings.

• Support with understanding and using nonverbal communication cues (e.g., gestures, facial expressions, body language).

Skills We Help Build:

• Planning and organization: Breaking a task into steps and keeping track of materials, deadlines, and what comes next.

• Flexible thinking and problem-solving: Adjusting to change, trying a new approach when the first one doesn't work, and weighing options.

• Emotional regulation: Managing big feelings and staying regulated enough to think clearly and communicate.

• Attention and self-monitoring: Staying with a task and noticing when it's time to refocus or check work.

• Time management: Estimating how long something will take and pacing through it.

• Social thinking and self-advocacy : Reading a social situation, adjusting behavior in the moment, and speaking up for what's needed.

• Independence with everyday routines : Getting through daily tasks like getting ready, homework, and chores without step-by-step reminders.

• Support for feeding challenges and creating positive mealtime experiences.

• Individualized therapy targeting chewing, swallowing, and oral movement coordination.

• Myofunctional therapy to support oral posture, tongue placement, functional oral patterns, and pre/post frenectomy care.

• Parent coaching and strategies to promote progress during daily routines.

• Support for stuttering and fluency challenges.

• Strategies to promote confident and effective communication.

• Parent coaching and education to support fluency development at home.