THERAPY SERVICES

We provide a wide array of therapy services. Because no two children are alike, no two therapy plans are alike. We customize your child’s treatment plan based on their evaluation, parent report, educator input, and our clinical experience. All children and their learning styles are unique, therefore their therapy objectives should be customized to best meet their needs. We provide the following services for children of infancy through high school:

• Speech-Language Evaluations and Therapy
• Occupational Evaluations and Therapy
• Literacy Skills/Dyslexia
• Social Skills
• Developmental Milestones

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SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY

Our Speech-Language Pathologists provide therapy services to improve the following:

• Articulation or Production of Sounds
• Receptive Language skills such as following multi-step direction, sequencing, and understanding of concepts
• Expressive Language skills such as vocabulary, expanding utterances, grammar, and telling narratives
• Dyslexia which includes addressing decoding, spelling, phonemic awareness, reading fluency and reading comprehension abilities

• Stuttering through a preschool curriculum as well as an elementary program, Focus on Fluency

•  Social Skills including understanding emotions, expressing emotions, controlling anger, problem solving, conversational skills, and perspective taking

•  Written Expression skills such as using correct punctuation, organizing thoughts using visual webs and graphic organizers, developing topic sentences and sequencing information

• Reading Comprehension skills which are targeted through a program called the Lindamood Bell Visualizing and Verbalizing Program which improves a child’s ability to recall details, determine main idea, summarize information and answer higher order thinking questions
• Auditory Memory skills to enhance a child’s ability to process and retain information

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OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY

Our Occupational Therapists can provide services to help with the following:

• Attention, arousal levels, and coping with emotions
• Activities of daily living such as self-help skills including brush teething, dressing, and toileting
• Handwriting and pencil grasp
• Feeding skills such as oral sensitivity
• Sensory Processing including body awareness and movement
• Coordination skills
• Gross motor skills
• Reflex integration

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LITERACY SKILLS

We provide reading and comprehension services to improve the following:

• Phonological Awareness Skills such as rhyming and segmenting sounds
• Sound-symbol correspondence and alphabet skills
• Decoding or "sounding out" words
• Spelling
• Reading Sight Words
• Understanding and applying syllable division rules
• Reading Fluency
• Vocabulary
• Comprehension skills such as main idea, details, inferencing
• Developing an enjoyment for reading!

 

Online Programs for Language and Reading

Beyond Speech is a provider for the Scientific Learning programs, including Fast ForWord® and Reading Assistant™. This family of products can be completed online and in the comfort of the child’s home. These programs are evidence based to create better thinkers, readers, and learners.

 

 

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Reading Assistant™ is a guided oral reading program utilizing the computer and a headset to help improve reading fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. The child has selections from over 300 reading passages ranging of reading levels from grades 1 – 12.

 

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Fast ForWord® is an evidence based language and reading intervention program that uses a unique 3-step approach to deliver fast learning gains. This program was developed by world-renowned neuroscientists to target the root of language and reading difficulties. The program addresses the underlying areas of memory, attention, processing, and sequencing.

The 3 step program includes:

Step 1: Prepare the brain by improving cognitive skills
Step 2: Practice a wide-variety of reading and language skills
Step 3: Reinforce new reading and language skills to rapidly build fluency and comprehension.