What does our therapy look like:

- 60 minute sessions at preferred setting (home, daycare, school, etc.)

- Hands on family involvement

- Evidence-based intervention through play (the best way children learn!)

- Establishing meaningful connections through fun and shared enjoyment

- Specialized parent coaching and education during session to facilitate carryover

Evaluations:

Speech, language, feeding, and sensory integration services all start with evaluating. We evaluate based on parent concerns and developmental history. This information contains: parent concerns via interview, standardized evaluation, informal/dynamic assessment, observations, and therapist-child interaction. After the evaluation, we will review the results with the family and then create an individualized therapy plan based on the child's strengths and area of need. If you notice any of the following, you may want to seek out a speech-language evaluation:

- Limited words or meaningful vocalizations (babbling, jargon)

- Words that are unintelligible or not fluent, repetitive, limited in the sounds they make

- Hard time answering and asking questions, labeling things, getting attention with words

- Difficulty interacting with peers

- Perceived sensory challenges, limited interests

- Feeding difficulties (coughing, overstuffing, not chewing, etc.)

Therapy:

Playful Paths therapists are specialized in working with children with a variety of speech and language delays and disorders, as well as facilitate sensory needs and feeding difficulties. We believe in a child-led and family-centered approach to fostering speech and language skills. We have advanced knowledge and experience with a variety of AAC use, apraxia of speech, and FEES evaluation.

Areas we specialize in:

- Language delays and disorders

- Child development and delays

- Speech Sound Disorders

- Phonological Disorders

- Childhood Apraxia of Speech

- AAC integration and use

- Social Skills 

- Autism

- Feeding difficulties

Parent Coaching Model:

The parent coaching model is a strong indicator of a child’s outcomes in therapy. Parents have a vital role in their child’s communication, and we strive to empower them to take on this task. We provide them with the tools and knowledge they need to be successful in demonstrating carryover of learned skills in therapy. We help parents/caregivers:

- To learn strategies to help your child communicate and interact in your unique routines and activities.

- Understand how you can engage with your child to nurture communication with them.

- Provide strategies to reduce challenging behaviors

- Learn how to play with your child to meet them where they are to foster communication