How It Works

• Your child’s strengths, interests, difficulties, and developmental history
• Your concerns for their speech, language, hearing, feeding, social, cognitive and pre-literacy skills

The  evaluation  involves using a variety of methods with your child. This is done in a fun way with motivators and breaks if needed.

• We will:
  • Engage your child in standardized and non-standardized testing procedures
  • Play with your child 
  • Watch you and your child playing together
  • Ask your child to copy action/movements/sounds/words
  • Look in and around your child’s mouth for physical factors
  • Observe your child following directions

• All data and testing gathered will be analyzed and written in a report to be discussed with you
• The speech pathologist will write goals and make a plan to address identified areas of concern as well as emerging skills using evidence based practices
• Session length and frequency will be determined after the first visit.

• • Guide you on a variety of communication building techniques to increase your child’s understanding and expression of language
  • Work with you and your child in areas of communication that are foundational to talking
  • Develop a meaningful way for your child to communicate 

• We may, as required:
  • Use a variety of prompts such as music, pictures, simple signs, verbal cues, video modeling, touch, and melodic intonation techniques
  • Use behavior strategies such as visual schedules, timers, and reward systems individualized to your child’s needs  to increase your child’s attention and decrease frustrations