SERVICES

Initial Evaluations

1 hour and 30 minutes

Individual Sessions

1 hour

Please call or email to set up your evaluation and discuss payment.

What We
Offer

Prelinguistic Communication
e.g. gestures, signs, body language, eye gaze

Every way your child let’s you know what they want or need before they are verbal communicators is considered "prelinguistic". This can include looking at what they want, moving their body to suggest a want or need, demonstrating joint attention, and showing a desire to communicate.

Speech Sound Production

Motor planning and execution
Articulation
Phonology

How we combine sounds together to produce words and how well we are understood by others, which is called, intelligibility.

Fluency

Fluency refers to continuity, smoothness, rate, and effort in speech production. The most common form of dysfluency is stuttering.

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

How we use language and nonverbal cues to interact with others in different situations. It involves skills such as understanding body language, voice tone, facial expressions, and conversational rules. Social communication can vary across cultures and contexts and is often subjective and abstract.

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. Executive functions include and impact emotional, cognitive, and behavioral regulation.

AREAS OF SPECIALTY

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
Greenspan Floortime – Kait is a Level II certified Greenspan Floortime Approach practitioner, currently working toward her Level III certification
- What is Floortime ? - Dr. Greenspan Floortime (stanleygreenspan.com)
Social Thinking – Kait has extensive experience addressing social skills and running social skills groups informed by Michelle Garcia Winner’s Social Thinking Curriculum
- Socialthinking - The Social Thinking Methodology
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
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
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