Speech & Language Services

Early Language • Gestalt Language Processing • AAC • Autism • ADHD • Literacy

Assessment & Therapy

A comprehensive initial assessment guides goal-setting and treatment plans. Therapy then occurs on a weekly or bi-weekly basis.

Coaching & Consultation

In addition to 1-on-1 therapy, many families benefit from support in the forms of parent coaching, and consultatinon with other professionals in the child’s life (occupational therapists, teachers, daycare providers).

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Early Language/Late Talkers

Speech and language services designed for toddlers up until the age of 3 to support the development of communication skills, helping them meet their speech and language milestones. Areas of need may include:

  • imitation skills

  • first words

  • using gestures

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Gestalt Language Processing

Therapy using the Natural Language Acquisition Framework supports GLP’s to move from echolalia (repeating from others) through novel, self-generated language production. Clues your child may be a GLP include:

  • repeating from others, more than expected

  • potential difficulty answering questions

  • strong sense of musical ability & intonation

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AAC

Alternative & Augmentative Communication include low & high tech devices, sign language, and any other way that children get their messages across. Children who may benefit from AAC:

  • Their receptive language is stronger than their expressive languaeg

  • Autistic children and/or Gestalt Language Processors

  • Children with motor difficulties

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Literacy

Development of skills related to reading and writing, including phonemic awareness, decoding, comprehension, and spelling, to ensure academic success and literacy proficiency.

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