Supporting the whole child through play
Speech-Language
Therapy
Different language development
requires different language support
Does your child…
-echo what you say?
-make sounds or sing songs but doesn’t use words?
-use scripts heard from movies, shows, or songs?
-have rich intonation?
-display difficulty following directions?
-have difficulty with transitions?
Specializing in Gestalt Language Processing, AAC+GLP, and supporting Neurodivergent children, I aim to improve communication through authentic connection.
I create individualized treatment plans for your child to support their speech and language skills using total communication— verbal speech, AAC, sign language, gestures, vocalizations, and more. I model language within preferred play to assist your child in acquiring language naturally.
Do you feel like traditional approaches haven’t worked for your child? Let me help!
Children with communication disorders require support, but what is often left out is training the child’s communication partners. I work to educate and assist you, as parents, to better support your child’s language so that your child isn’t just getting an hour of therapy a week, his/her language development is being supported by YOU too!
…but I don’t stop there! I’ll communicate with your child’s team to better support them as well! It takes a village to raise a child, so let’s educate the village. Ensuring your child’s team is on the same page will help with the carryover of skills and can improve those connections in your child’s life!
Consultations
Maybe you’re not looking for weekly therapy services…
Neurodivergent individuals and Gestalt Language Processors experience the world and process information differently. After years of research, training, therapy practice, and listening to Autistic voices, I can help you become a better communication partner!
I provide:
-Parent Education: I can help you better understand how your child learns language and how you can better support them at home and across environments. It’s okay that you don’t know this yet— this isn’t something we are taught as parents!
-Communication Partner Coaching: Does your child spend a good chunk of time with grandparents or a babysitter? Do you wish they could better understand how your child communicates so they too can be better models? This takes time and energy and they will likely have questions— let me do it and lighten your mental load!
-Professional Consultation: helping teachers, aides, other therapists, doctors, etc. better understand how your child processes language.
-Professional Development: Providing up-to-date information about how regulation affects communication, Neurodiversity-affirming care, Gestalt Language Processing, and supporting Autistic students across settings.
-Public Awareness Presentations: Currently speaking about Gestalt Language Processing, The Double Empathy Problem, and Embracing Neurodiversity.
-School Presentations: teaching children at their level that all brains are different and people experience the world differently. What better way to improve inclusion and understanding in our area?! I love speaking with children and listening to their thoughts about their brains and how they experience the world. They learn how listening doesn’t always look one way and how people can communicate in many ways!