Expressive Language: Refers to your child’s ability to join words and build sentences that utilize correct grammar and vocabulary. This allows children to express their needs and wants clearly, portray their thoughts and ideas, and use language, whether it be verbal, gestural, or augmentative (AAC) to engage in successful interactions with their peers.

Receptive Language: Refers to your child’s ability to understand and process information. Difficulties with understanding language and words, may result in challenges following directions, answering questions, understanding stories, etc.

Executive Functioning: Refers to your child’s ability to plan, organize, manage time, complete tasks, etc. These skills are essential for carrying out everyday tasks, especially in school.

Echolalia: Many autistic individuals present with a gestalt language processing style. This language learning style often first comes presents as long strings of babbling, immediate repeating or scripting. This language style requires a different approach to therapy than the traditional one. Hailey & Maddi are both certified NLA Trained Clinicians.

Social Communication: Social communication skills include self-advocacy, perspective taking, understanding figurative language, introception (bodily sensations related to emotions), etc. We are committed to affirming your child’s unique personality while helping them engage in social interactions, form relationships with others, and communicate with peers.

Our therapists are committed to using a strengths-based and neurodiversity affirming approach with our neurodivergent clients. Importance is placed on regulation and connection through play!

Articulation: Refers to your child’s ability to produce certain sounds like “th” or “s”

Phonology: Refers to patterns of sound errors that persist beyond an age-appropriate level (e.g., saying “wed” for “red”)

Motor Speech/ Childhood Apraxia of Speech: Our brain sends messages to the mouth to tell it how and when to move for speech. Some children have a disruption in this message resulting in inconsistent and unclear speech.

Tongue Thrust Therapy: Refers to an abnormal swallowing pattern characterized by the forward movement and pressure of the tongue on the upper/lower front teeth. This pressure may result in dental abnormalities.

Phonological Awareness: These are the underlying skills children need to learn to read and write. This includes understanding sound-letter representations, rhyming, breaking words down into sounds and syllables, etc.

These services can be provided by both our SLPs and Reading Therapist.

Literacy: Refers to your child’s ability to understand the rules of spelling/ decoding and read fluently. Services provided by our reading therapist.

These sessions will include structured literacy blocks that focus on each individual pillar of reading, or diving deeper into a specific skill based on assessment and personal goals!