Speech & Feeding Therapy Programs

Learning articulation and oral-motor tasks through play and demonstration.

Program Descriptions:

• Oral Placement Therapy (OPT) Talk Tools - (developed Sarah Rosenfeld-Johnson)

  ~ OPT teaches oral structural placement to clients who cannot produce or imitate speech sounds using traditional auditory or visual input.

• Sequential-Oral- Sensory (SOS) approach to feeding developed by Dr. Kay Toomey.

  ~ This program integrates motor, oral, behavioral/learning, medical, sensory and nutritional factors and approaches in order to comprehensively evaluate and manage children with feeding/growth problems. 

• SMILE Program (Systematic Intervention for Lingual Elevation) developed by Robyn Merkel-Walsh MA, CCC-SLP

  ~ A fun therapy program for tongue-thrust remediation.

• Solving the Puzzle of Autism Using Tactile Therapy Techniques

• Feeding Therapy: A Sensory Motor Approach developed by Lori L. Overland M.S. CCC-SLP, C/NDT, CLC, FOM ~ Pre-feeding exercises designed to develop the motor skills for safe, effective, nutritive feeding and therapeutic feeding techniques are targeted.

Assisting feeding challenges by exploring and interacting with food through play.

Therapy Provided:

Articulation Therapy

• Traditional Articulation and Phonological Therapy

• Oral Placement Therapy ( Speech Clarity)

Language Therapy Targeting

• Developmental Delays

• Late Talkers

• Reduced utterance length

Social Communication

• Improve Social Pragmatic Skills

• Social Thinking

• Improve Non-Literal Language Skills

Augmentative Alternative Communication

• Utilizing Communication Picture Board

• Utilizing Speech Generating Device

Feeding Therapy

• Food Chaining

• SOS approach to Feeding

• Oral Placement Therapy For Feeding

• A Sensory Motor Approach