Speech Therapy

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Everyone deserves a voice.

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Communication isn’t just about needs; it’s about connection, belonging, and being understood. Katie works with individuals across a wide range of speech, language, voice, feeding, and speech sound needs. She supports clients from infancy through young adulthood.

  • Receptive Language:

    • Understanding the spoken words and gestures around them

    • Identifying objects and pictures

    • Following directions

    • Reading Comprehension

    • Understanding vocabulary

    • Understanding grammatical structure

    • Processing school lectures/teachings

    Expressive Language:

    • Communication through spoken, written, or signed communication

    • Answering questions

    • Retelling Stories

    • Using correct grammatical structures such as verbs, pronouns, and prepositions

  • Helping individuals produce speech sounds correctly to improve their overall ability to be understood among all communication partners.

    Average age at each speech sound is produced correctly:

    • 2–3 Years Old: B, M, N, P, H, W

    • 3 Years Old: D, G, K, F, T, -ING, Y

    • 4 Years Old: V, J, S, CH, L, SH, Z

    • 5 Years Old: R, Zh, TH (voiced)

    • 6 Years Old: TH (voiceless), R-Blends, L-Blends

  • Katie is trained and certified in Gestalt Language Processing therapy. Gestalt language processing (GLP) is a natural way of acquiring language where individuals learn in chunks or “gestalts” rather than through individual words.

    Is your child a Gestalt Language Processor? Many caregivers will report that their child communicates through scripts, quoting favorite movies/shows, repeating phrases that they hear from others, or have limited overall expressive communication.

  • AAC communication includes all forms and ways that someone can communicate besides talking. Many times AAC-based therapy will incorporate a multimodal approach where therapy targets a combination of different communication formats.

    Low Tech AAC:

    • Gestures/Pointing

    • Facial Expressions

    • Sign Language

    • Spelling/Drawing

    • Picture Exchange Communication Symbols

    High Tech AAC:

    • Using an app on an iPad or tablet

    • Using a computer “voice” (speech generating device)

  • Katie is trained in the Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing® Program for Reading, Spelling, and Speech (LIPS).

  • Katie is certified in Beckman Oral Motor Protocol
    Feeding therapy can target:

    • Oral Motor Coordination of biting, chewing, and eating

    • Picky eaters

    • Planning: The ability to identify your goals and determine the steps needed to achieve them.

    • Prioritization: The skill of arranging tasks or goals in an effective order based on importance and urgency.

    • Organization: The ability to create and maintain systems that keep materials, information, and plans in order, using planning and prioritization as foundational skills.

    • Time Management: The ability to understand how long tasks will take and to use time effectively to complete them.

    • Working Memory: The mental ability to hold information in mind, use it, and apply it while completing tasks.

    • Metacognition: Awareness of your own thinking and learning processes, and the ability to use that awareness to improve learning.

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