SERVICES
Green Hills Playhouse Therapy provides informal evaluations, standardized assessments, and ongoing therapy in homes, schools, and clinical settings. I have experience with a wide variety of speech, language, motor and sensory disorders. I strive to figure out what a child is intrinsically motivated by and use their motivation to my advantage in tailoring my treatment goals around what they like to do. I want them to have fun while communicating and not realize they are “working.”
Articulation refers to the actual production of speech sounds. For example, if a child produces /w/ for /l/ (ex “wion” for “lion”), articulation therapy would focus on helping the child produce the /l/ sound correctly.
AAC includes all forms of communication, other than oral speech, that are used to express thoughts, needs, wants, and ideas. Should a child have severe speech or language problems, my goal is to determine an alternative way for them to express themselves. Ultimately, this will improve a child’s social interactions, behavior, performance in school, and self-identity.I can administer AAC evaluations to determine eligibility for utilizing AAC as a primary means of communication.
Sensory-motor therapy, social language groups, and language therapy are all part of the treatment for our children with autistic spectrum disorder. I feel strongly that every child can and should have fun while communicating.
AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDER
ACQUISITION
OF LITERACY
Learning linguistic concepts such as spatial concepts (in/on, etc.), colors, and temporal concepts (first, next, last) can be challenging for some children.
COGNITIVE/LINGUISTIC THERAPY
ARTICULATION
THERAPY
SOS is a hierarchical method to teach feeding and oral motor skills which helps the child to improve these skills through systematic play. Feeding therapy is individualized and combines both sensory-motor and behavioral methods customized for each and every child.
FEEDING THERAPY
I treat children with a wide variety of language disorders such as, auditory processing disorders, developmental delays, specific language impairment and autistic spectrum disorders.
LANGUAGE THERAPY
Phonological disorders refer to a confusion with the rules of the language. So if a child can say all the sounds in the language, but consistently drops the final consonant in the word, they have a phonological disorder called “Final Consonant Deletion”. They have confusion about the need to “mark” the end of a word.
PHONOLOGICAL
DISORDERS
PROMPT is a tactile way of teaching the sounds. Multisensory learning (using more than one sense to teach a sound) has proven to be faster at helping a child learn the sounds and be able to generalize them across all settings more efficiently. PROMPT physically teaches the correct “motor plan” which is is the act of figuring out how to move the muscles to complete a specific sound that has its own movement gesture.
PROMPT THERAPY FOR DYSPRAXIA/APRAXIA
ARTICULATION
THERAPY
Articulation refers to the actual production of speech sounds. For example, if a child produces /w/ for /l/ (ex “wion” for “lion”), articulation therapy would focus on helping the child produce the /l/ sound correctly.