Our Services

Screening

This is a brief preliminary assessment of your child’s speech and language skills. The results are compiled into a short summary, including impressions and recommendations. The screening may help determine if a full comprehensive speech-language evaluation is needed.

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Evaluation

A thorough assessment of speech and language skills using a combination of standardized assessments and informal tools to identify a child’s strengths and weaknesses in the areas of speech, language, and literacy. The results are compiled into a comprehensive report that guide personalized intervention plans for each child.

Treatment

We utilize a child-centered approach to address your child's speech, language, and literacy goals. Private therapy is conducted at preschools, daycares and schools with occasional home visits. Parents, caregivers, and teachers are an integral part of carryover.

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Treatment Specialties

Articulation

Your child may…

  • Be hard to understand (which often causes frustration!)

  • Have difficulty pronouncing certain sounds or substitutes sounds (i.e. “tat” for cat)

  • Omit sounds (i.e. “ha” for hat)

  • Omit syllables (i.e. “wah-melon” for watermelon)

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Language

Your child may…

  • Have difficulty understanding language, following directions, answering questions appropriately, identifying vocabulary, understanding a story or comprehending basic concepts.

  • Have difficulty using language, expressing wants/needs, describing pictures, labeling vocabulary, putting together sentences (i.e. word order), telling a story, or using correct grammar (i.e. past tense verbs, plural nouns, pronouns like me, I, you)

Building print awareness and early literacy skills

Literacy

Your child may struggle to….

  • Identify or generate rhyming words (i.e. hat rhymes with “cat”)

  • Segment sentences, syllables (i.e. “bas-ket”), or words (i.e. “s-n-a-ck”)

  • Manipulate sounds (i.e. substitute /h/ for /b/ in bat=hat)

  • Associate letters with sounds (/b/ says “b”)

  • Read fluently

  • Spell words

  • Recall/retell a story

  • Write grammatically correct sentences