Online Pediatric Services
Speech Therapy | Washington, Oregon, California
Meet & Greet
20 min Zoom meeting
No Cost
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Initial Evaluation
90 minute Speech & Language Assessment
$150
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Treatment Session
45 minute Online Speech Therapy
$90
Recommendation by SLP
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Bravo Online Speech Therapy provides fun and evidence-based speech-language services in the comfort of your home. Therapy is conducted via HIPAA compliant video conferencing.
Currently Helping Residents Of..
Washington State
Oregon
California
Heather’s delivery of care is founded in an understanding of the concerns you have for your child.
Pediatric Therapy Services Offered
Meet & Greet
Get to know your Speech Therapist, Heather
- Discuss the concerns you have for your child
- Determine if a formal evaluation is recommended
- No cost screening
20 minutes
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Initial Evaluation
Formal assessment to evaluate speech & language skills
- Examine your child’s health history and review paperwork
- Use standardized testing to attain a formal assessment
- Informally observe your child’s communication, play skills, engagement
- Assess movement, coordination, and strength of your child’s lips, tongue, jaw
- Review results and develop a plan of care if therapy is recommended
90 minutes
A longer amount of time is allotted for an Initial Evaluation in order to gain enough information about your child. Heather conducts specific testing and carefully observes various skills, without influencing your child’s behaviours. Your child’s strengths and difficulties will emerge in the process! This helps guide Heather in the development of a comprehensive written report, which will be provided to you.
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Therapy Treatment Sessions
Ongoing treatment that follows your child’s plan of care
- Establish the plan of care with individualized goals
- Motivate with structured activities geared toward your child’s interests
- Involve parent throughout session to assist in child’s participation
- Advise the parent on skills necessary to help your child at home
- Collaboration between parent and therapist is ongoing
- Provide goal tracking via progress reports
Research-based treatment guides your child towards their goals. They may not realize they’re hard at work, improving their communication skills, while having so much fun!
A variety of activities are offered to motivate your child. Play-based therapy is used with your child’s favorite toys from home (your therapist plays too!). Wiggly bodies may benefit from movement and music games. Interactive online activities can engage children of all ages.
45 minutes
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Heather’s therapy approach is based on your child’s specific interests and motivations. She utilizes play-based therapy, interactive online games, movement, and more!
Areas of Pediatric Treatment
Receptive Language
- Developing language comprehension, the understanding of language
- Advancing the understanding of words, sentence structures or concepts
- Strengthening the ability to follow directions
Expressive Language
- Improving the expression of language/communication skills
- Using gestures, sign language, verbal speech/sounds, pictures, communication device (AAC), or a unique combination
Social Language
- Practicing social language/conversational skills
- Growing confidence in social situations
- Building and maintaining peer relationships
Fluency/Stuttering
- Learning techniques for better understanding and acceptance of stuttering
- Reducing stuttering behaviors to aid functional communication and confidence
Speech Sound Disorders
- Increasing overall speech intelligibility (understandability of your child’s speech)
- Mastering articulation skills (learning techniques to increase accurate placement and movement of specific speech sounds)
- Developing phonological skills (focusing on linguistics, phonological processes, sound patterns)
- Improving motor planning skills (focusing on the motor plan and coordination of speech sounds)
Cognitive-Communication
- Exercising problem solving, planning, and thought organization
- Increasing attention and memory skills
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Heather involves you,
as well as siblings, teachers, and school therapists to foster the most collaborative approach possible.
as well as siblings, teachers, and school therapists to foster the most collaborative approach possible.
Kids Who May Need Speech Therapy
Autism
Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are a diverse group of conditions related to development of the brain, characterized by some degree of difficulty with social interaction, communication, and language skills.
Speech-Language Delay or Disorder
A speech or language delay is when a child is meeting developmental milestones in the appropriate sequence but at a slower rate when compared to their same-aged peers.
A speech or language disorder is when a child is reaching their milestones but in an atypical pattern or sequence.
A speech or language disorder is when a child is reaching their milestones but in an atypical pattern or sequence.
Speech Sound Disorder
A speech sound disorder encompasses articulation disorders, phonological disorders, and motor speech disorders (apraxia).
In all cases, a child has difficulty producing the sounds that are necessary for effective communication.
In all cases, a child has difficulty producing the sounds that are necessary for effective communication.
Social Communication Disorder
A social communication disorder is characterized by difficulties with the use of verbal and nonverbal language in context for social purposes (pragmatics).
This includes conversational skills, language processing, and interpreting and expressing emotions.
This includes conversational skills, language processing, and interpreting and expressing emotions.
Fluency Disorder/Stuttering
A fluency disorder is present when a person has difficulty speaking with a smooth flow or ‘fluency’ of speech (i.e. repetition of words, parts of words, sounds, facial movements, etc).
Feelings of self-consciousness can be a factor if awareness is high. Younger children are typically not aware.
Feelings of self-consciousness can be a factor if awareness is high. Younger children are typically not aware.
Intellectual Disability
An intellectual disability is characterized by onset in the developmental period and significant limitations in adaptive behavior and intellectual functioning.
Down Syndrome
Down syndrome is a genetic disorder caused when abnormal cell division results in an extra full or partial copy of chromosome 21.
The extra chromosome is associated with delays and differences in the child’s intellectual, physical, and speech-language development.
The extra chromosome is associated with delays and differences in the child’s intellectual, physical, and speech-language development.
Genetic Disorder
A genetic disorder occurs when a mutation or change affects one’s DNA sequence. Symptoms of genetic disorders vary widely, depending on the disorder, and can range from mild to severe.
Speech-language treatments can be developed to help improve the child’s functional communication and overall quality of life.
Speech-language treatments can be developed to help improve the child’s functional communication and overall quality of life.
Teamwork and flexibility in our plan will be important for success in therapy!
Ask Heather a Question!
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