Screenings and Evaluations

Screenings are brief clinical observations of your child’s communication development and can indicate whether your child needs an in-depth assessment. Evaluations entail a dynamic and comprehensive analysis of your child’s functional communication skills, motor-speech and sound production, oral motor and feeding, language understanding and use, social communication, play, and academic readiness by using standardized assessments and clinical expertise. The process of each evaluation will vary as it will be specifically tailored to the individual child. .

1:1 Therapy

Therapy sessions for this age group are created to be engaging, stimulating, and specifically tailored to each child. Services take place in the home, or, occasionally in a school setting.Therapy may also include home practice programs, parent or caregiver coaching, and strategies for functional use of communication skills. Co treatments and collaborations with other team members (educators, occupational therapists, physical therapists, pediatricians, neuropsychologists etc.) are an integral part of the therapeutic process. 

Group Therapy

Groups are created for children with similar goals, ranging from two to four children per session. The goals and progression of each group are based on the results of each child’s evaluation and the mutual goals developed by the team (therapist, parents, children). Current groups offered:

• Sibling articulation dyads- Two siblings with similar (not necessarily the same) articulation goals can conveniently receive treatment at the same time for a group rate.

• Pre-literacy pods- The focus of these pods are to encourage phonological awareness development, pre-literacy and narrative skills by using fun, multi-sensory ways of learning. Children will participate in group activities to identify main ideas and details, define vocabulary, recall and summarize stories, and make inferences and predictions using higher level language skills. Additionally, activities will focus on letter knowledge, rhyming, isolating and manipulating sounds, and other foundational skills required for early readers. 

• Social language groups- Created for children with social language difficulties, this therapist-guided play group is a fun and interactive way to practice social language skills with peers. These groups are a great way for a child to build confidence and generalize functional and social communication skills in a natural setting.  Social language groups are influenced by Michelle Garcia Winner’s Social Thinking Program.