Private Early Intervention

• Early intervention focuses on helping babies and toddlers learn the basic and brand-new skills that typically develop during the first 3 years of life.

• For toddlers who are "late talkers" or delayed in expressive language skills (e.g. saying or adding too few words to his or her vocabulary, or not yet combining words when it is expected).  Toddlers may also be demonstrating poor speech production and have other communication needs.

• Learn how to use effective, evidence based techniques to elicit language and discover how to create a language rich environment.

Speech Sound Production

• Speech sound disorders include any combination of difficulties with perception, motor production, or phonological representation of speech sounds (i.e. articulation disorder, phonological processes, Childhood apraxia of speech, dysarthria)

• Treatment will include effective, evidence based techniques to help clients produce sounds correctly, learn to recognize which sounds are correct and incorrect, and practice sounds in different words.

• Treatment for voice and fluency disorders  (i.e. stuttering)

• PROMPT Level 1 and 2 trained: Treating a variety of speech sound disorders using hands-on tactile-kinesthetic input

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Preschool Language Disorders: Receptive and Expressive Language

• Some children have difficulties with understanding language (receptive language).  This includes difficulty with following directions, answering questions, identifying objects, and understanding gestures and other children may have difficulties with talking/producing language (expressive language). This includes difficulty with asking questions, naming objects and pictures, using gestures, putting words together in sentences, learning songs and rhymes.

• Learn how communicate with your child and learn how to increase your child’s understanding and use of language through a variety of evidence based techniques and strategies.

Literacy

• Providing intervention to remediate literacy-related difficulties by working in collaboration with families and caregivers to ensure that young children have ample opportunities to participate in emergent literacy activities.

• Developing literacy by continually exposing children to oral and written language, and by building on prior knowledge and language experiences for carry over at home, in daycare, and in preschool environments.

• Some early reading and writing skills: holding a book right side up, looking at pictures in a book, turning pages, naming letters 7 numbers, learning sounds of alphabet.

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Social Skills/Pragmatic Language

• May include difficulties with social interaction (speech style and context, rules for politeness), social cognition (understanding emotions of self and others), and pragmatics (body language, eye contact). 

• May be a distinct diagnosis or may occur within the context of other conditions, such as autism spectrum disorder, specific language impairment, learning disabilities, ADHD, and more.

• Helping individuals use language appropriately in social situations (i.e. greeting others informing other, requesting for things, speaking differently in the classroom than on the playground, staying on topic, taking turns during conversation, etc.)

Speech Sound Production

• Speech sound disorders include any combination of difficulties with perception, motor production, or phonological representation of speech sounds (i.e. articulation disorder, phonological processes, apraxia, dysarthria)

• Treatment will include effective, evidence based techniques to help clients produce sounds correctly, learn to recognize which sounds are correct and incorrect, and practice sounds in different words.

• Treatment for voice and fluency disorders  (i.e. stuttering)

• PROMPT Level 1 and 2 trained: Treating a variety of speech sound disorders using hands-on tactile-kinesthetic input

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 Receptive and Expressive Language:

• Some children have difficulties with understanding language (receptive language).  This includes difficulty with following directions, answering questions, identifying objects, and understanding gestures and other children may have difficulties with talking/producing language (expressive language). This includes difficulty with asking questions, naming objects and pictures, using gestures, putting words together in sentences, learning songs and rhymes.

• Learn how communicate with your child and learn how to increase your child’s understanding and use of language through a variety of evidence based techniques and strategies.

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Literacy

• Language-based learning disabilities are difficulties with age-appropriate reading, spelling, and/or writing (i.e. dyslexia).

• Offering individualized instruction, using evidence-based practices to target skills for literacy (oral language, storytelling, phonological and phonemic awareness, rhyming, print awareness, attention, and auditory memory).

• Sonday System: multisensory reading intervention. 

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Social Skills/Pragmatic Language:

• May include difficulties with social interaction (speech style and context, rules for politeness), social cognition (understanding emotions of self and others), and pragmatics (body language, eye contact). 

• May be a distinct diagnosis or may occur within the context of other conditions, such as autism spectrum disorder, specific language impairment, learning disabilities, ADHD, and more.

• Helping individuals use language appropriately in social situations (i.e. greeting others informing other, requesting for things, speaking differently in the classroom than on the playground, staying on topic, taking turns during conversation, etc.)

Children with autism, also known as autism spectrum disorder or ASD, have social, communication, and language difficulties. 

May present with the following social and communication impairments; difficulty playing with others and sharing toys, understanding feelings, making and keeping friends, understanding and using gestures (pointing, waving), following directions, understanding and using words, and having conversations. 

Offering evidence, based intervention that includes a combination of traditional speech and language interventions, augmentative and alternative communication, and behavioral interventions.

PECS LEVEL 1 and 2 trained: using pictures to rapidly teach communication skills to those with limited functional speech.

Adults: Accent Modification

• Modifying accents by increasing intelligibility without sacrificing an individual's unique identity

• Offering individual or group sessions to help adults who want to improve their pronunciation of English as their Second Language.

• Corporate rates are available for companies who want to provide employees this service.

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Parents: Coaching

• Individual coaching to ensure that parents have sufficient knowledge and strategies to support their child's speech, language, and literacy development at home.

Children/Adults (in person or tele-therapy)
A Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) Certificate is an internationally recognized entry-level credential for teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in schools and communities. TEFL-certified individuals are qualified to teach English to non-native English speakers around the globe.

CREATIVE CREW™ Educational-Speech Therapy Services

A wide range of services targeting child development, speech therapy, and literacy skills with the use of the Creative Crew™️ educational programming and Imagine and Daydream, a beautiful children’s book written by Fiorita Di Palma. Fiorita is a licensed speech language pathologist who also has teaching certifications in Elementary Education K-5 and Special Education.  These services are available in person and online, for individuals or groups, and can be tailored to children or to adults as parent training.