SERVICES
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What We
Offer
Prelinguistic Communication
e.g. gestures, signs, body language, vocalizations, joint attention
While none of these are prerequisites to verbal communication, it is essential to understand and recognize that any form of communication is valid and should be honored and encouraged.
Speech Sound Production
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Motor planning and execution
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Articulation
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Phonology
How we combine sounds together to produce words and how well we are understood by others, which is called, intelligibility.
Voice Disorders
Characterized by the abnormal production and/or absences of vocal quality, pitch, loudness, resonance, and/or duration.
Receptive and Expressive Communication
Receptive language refers to how we understand or comprehend spoken words and the language around us. Expressive language is the ability to communicate one’s thoughts and feelings using words, sentences, gestures, writing or alternative options.
Social Communication
Theory of mind and perspective taking are skills which help us understand how to interact with those around us. Social skills are nuanced and do not always come naturally and are influence by body language, intonation, facial expressions, understanding other's thoughts and ideas, problem solving, negotiating, and so much more.
Executive Functioning
An umbrella term which includes cognitive skills of the frontal lobe such as working memory, flexibility, impulse control, organization, planning and self-monitoring. EF is crucial to everyday success, participation, and safety. It also allows for effective adaptation and accommodation to changing environmental demands.
AREAS OF SPECIALTY
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Autism - Working with children and adolescents across all levels of the Autism spectrum is a focus area which Kait has invested much of her career
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Greenspan Floortime – Kait is a Level II certified Greenspan Floortime Approach practitioner, currently working toward her Level III certification
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Social Thinking – Kait has extensive experience addressing social skills and running social skills groups informed by Michelle Garcia Winner’s Social Thinking Curriculum
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Childhood Apraxia of Speech – Kait adheres to Edyth Strand’s Principles of Motor Learning in her enthusiastic and passionate treatment of apraxia and motor speech disorders
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Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) – Kait believes in the utmost importance of teaching caregivers how to support their child in their use of AAC alongside their child’s own learning so that a device does not simply go home and sit on a shelf but is a functional communication tool
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Executive Functioning – Working memory, planning, sequencing, problem solving, and flexibility are our brains tools to help us participate successfully in our environment. If our brain’s tools are having a hard time, it is exceedingly difficult to succeed socially and academically. Understanding executive functioning and determining strategies to support these social-cognitive skills are a formative part of Kait’s bottom-up approach to intervention
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Gestalt Language Processing