Services
Speech therapy
Language work for kids 18 months to 11 years, by an in-house speech therapist. Standalone, or as part of a plan with ABA and OT.
What our speech therapist does
A lot of parents expect speech therapy to start when their child begins talking. It actually starts much earlier than that.
Before words, there's already a lot going on. A child learns to make eye contact, and to point at what they want. They start to take turns in the simple back-and-forth that conversation is built on, and to use a sound or a gesture to say “I want that.” These are the building blocks our speech therapist starts with, and the work grows alongside your child until they're holding full conversations.
For older kids, the work looks different. Some of it is about the language itself, like putting longer sentences together or saying sounds more clearly. A lot of it is about the social side of talking, which is its own kind of skill: knowing how to stay on topic, or picking up on what the other person is feeling.
When your child is also working with our ABA team or OT, we share notes. What happens in speech carries into the other sessions, and back the other way too.
Our speech therapist wrote a plain-language piece on why speech therapy starts before the first word for parents who want to know what a session actually looks like.
