Babies and toddlers
First words, first signs, first conversations. Early intervention when the smallest moves matter most.
What we treat
Six things we treat. One plan built around your kid.
Every plan starts with a structured evaluation. We use evidence-based methods, applied to the kid in front of us, not the average kid in a study.
Specialties
Targeted support across receptive language, expressive language, speech sounds, and social use.
Every specialty is available in-person or virtual. Every plan is built around your child. Same SLP for both, from evaluation through discharge.
Articulation and speech sounds
If your child is hard to understand, even by people who love them, this is the work. We use a phonological or motor approach, depending on the pattern of errors we see, to teach correct sound production. So your kid is understood the first time, by classmates, grandparents, and the kid in line at the slide.
Language development
If your child struggles to follow multi-step directions, mixes up word order, or knows what they want but cannot find the words to say it, this is the work. Receptive and expressive language, the two sides of communication. We work on vocabulary, sentence structure, following directions, and the ability to walk into a conversation already started and find the way in.
Autism and communication
Autism is at the heart of our practice. We use a neurodiversity-affirming approach, which means we build on how your child already communicates rather than asking them to communicate the way a textbook expects. Functional communication, connection, play, and the language strategies that fit the kid in front of us, built in an engaging and meaningful way. Whether your child is a gestalt language processor, scripting, using AAC, or fully verbal, we meet them there.
Social communication
If your child can technically talk but gets lost in conversation, stands too close, misses jokes, or has a hard time keeping friends, this is the work. Conversation, turn-taking, perspective-taking, and the back-and-forth that makes a friendship. The school often calls this kid fine. Parents often know better.
Early literacy and reading
If your child cannot rhyme by kindergarten, can sound out the words but not tell you what they read, or hates the reading log every night, the early literacy work starts here. We work on phonological awareness (the ability to hear and play with the sounds inside words), sound-letter mapping, and the language comprehension that turns decoding into reading.
Early intervention
If your toddler is not yet using words, is pointing instead of asking, or has a pediatrician who said "let's wait and see" but you are not waiting, this is the work. First words, first signs, joint attention. For babies and toddlers in the birth-to-three window, when small things compound the most. We work alongside you so daily life becomes the practice.
How we meet
Three ways to work. One SLP either way.
Some kids do their best work in the room. Some do their best work on a screen. Some do both, depending on the week. The format follows the child, not the other way around.
- In-person sessions. Hands-on, full-body, the kind of work that uses the whole room.
- Virtual sessions. Real therapy, on screen, from your kitchen table. Often the easier option for busy weeks, sick siblings, and out-of-driving-range families.
- Parent and caregiver coaching. Sometimes the highest-leverage intervention is teaching you what to do at the dinner table. We work closely with families, caregivers, and educators to ensure consistency and meaningful progress.
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Collaboration across your child's team.
We work alongside the families, caregivers, and educators in your child's life so the strategies we use in session show up everywhere your child is.
- Families
- Caregivers
- Educators
Across every format, the goal is the same: strategies that carry over into everyday routines at home, at school, and in the community.
Every age, every stage
We work with kids from birth to 18.
Wherever your child is right now, we meet them there. We do not age them out of the practice.
Preschool
Articulation, language, and the early literacy work that makes the first day of kindergarten feel possible.
Elementary
Language, reading, and social skills, with one eye on the classroom and one eye on the lunch table.
Middle and high school
Social communication, self-advocacy, and executive language. The language to navigate group projects, peer relationships, college essays, and the leap to adulthood.
Payment and insurance
No insurance hoops. Just clear pricing, and a superbill we send you every time.
We are out of network on purpose. The trade is real attention and a real evaluation, not the thirty minutes the insurance pre-authorizes. After every session we send you a superbill. Most plans reimburse 50 to 80% of out-of-network speech therapy.
Private pay
We tell you the per-session rate on the 15-minute call, before any clinical plan, before any paperwork. You decide with the facts.
Superbills, every session
After every session you get a superbill with the ICD-10 diagnosis codes, CPT procedure codes, dates of service, and payment details your insurance needs. You submit, they reimburse you.
Ready when you are
Have a guess about what your child needs? Or no idea at all?
Either way, the 15-minute call is the right next thing. We listen, we ask the questions a screening clinician asks, and we tell you what we think. Including, sometimes, that someone else is a better fit.
