We understand the importance of feeling comfortable with your child’s clinician and the need to ease your concerns. We are happy to schedule a phone consultation prior to scheduling an evaluation or therapy. We also offer an optional face to face meeting to give you and your child a chance to meet their clinician and establish rapport before their first session. Once the evaluation or therapy is scheduled, this can make it easier to hit the ground running.
We feel strongly that quality evaluations will drive quality interventions and treatments. Path to Progress will provide you with an intake form prior to your child’s evaluation which will detail relevant background history and any concerns about your child’s speech and language development. During the evaluation, we use a combination of standardized assessments, informal observations, language/speech samples, and parent feedback to evaluate a child. We strive to consider not only the areas that your child is struggling with but also his/her strengths. Speech and language evaluations include the testing sessions that are required to obtain necessary data, a detailed written report of findings and recommendations, and if requested, a follow up meeting to discuss the results and recommendations.
Path to Progress provides individual sessions designed to target your child’s unique needs. Quality treatment involves a goal-driven process which encompasses the entire child, as well as their support system. Collaboration with parents, caregivers, teachers, and other therapists are vital to helping a child reach their goals. Speech and language therapy is available to address articulation, feeding/oral motor skills, phonological processes, apraxia of speech, tongue thrust, expressive and receptive language, pragmatic language and social skills, autism spectrum disorders, pre-literacy skills, auditory processing, executive functioning, fluency/stuttering, and early intervention.
Many children with pragmatic difficulties that are successful with individual therapy benefit from a group approach. When appropriate, we group children together who are struggling with peer relationships, conversational skills, and are experiencing frustration communicating with others. Social environments require social rules, perspective taking, and social thinking that are difficult for some kids. Our groups provide training on social thinking, the appropriate use of language, and nonverbal communication and while incorporating recreational activities in real-life settings.
Screenings are offered in preschools, pediatrician’s offices, and individually by appointment. The purpose of this early identification program is to look for any factors that could be affecting a child’s success with learning and communicating in their classroom and home environments. Research has proven that early intervention significantly reduces or eliminates communication problems and helps to prevent accompanying social, emotional, or learning issues that may develop. Screenings are available in the areas of speech, language, hearing, and vision.
We offer a presentation/discussion for school staff members on strategies for identifying and assisting children with communication challenges. Beyond the typical training for educators, our workshops explore the speech and language development of young students and provide strategies to help aid in their communication within the classroom. Receptive/expressive language, stuttering/fluency, speech sound errors, and pragmatics/social interactions are all areas that can affect the communicative abilities of the preschool and elementary aged child. Our goal is to help educators better identify if/when they should be concerned and add some strategies to their teaching toolbox to help better facilitate students’ conversations, modify delivery of instruction for their language-delayed students, and improve their knowledge of how to address speech sound errors and dysfluent speech. We will be happy to modify content to fit the specific needs of your population.