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Therapy:

Sherry provides individual, in-home speech and language therapy to children ranging from one- to eight-years-old, building speech and language skills through play. Whether it’s taking cars through a carwash with your preschooler or sailing a pirate ship across the table with your five-year-old, Sherry utilizes imagination and play to communicate and teach speech and language skills.

A vital component of the therapy process is the involvement of the child’s parents, who are encouraged to be part of the session and are given weekly suggestions to help improve progress. After watching a session, parents often say, “Now I know how to do it!” or “I learned so much today.” Daily parental reinforcement of target sounds, language structures, fluency and social language goals will help children to maximize their therapy experience and improve their speech and language progress overall.

 

Services include therapy specializing in

• Language delays and disorders: Sherry has worked with preschoolers delayed in speech, grammar or functional language; higher functioning children on the Autism spectrum emphasizing pragmatic language; and school-aged children needing literacy-based language therapy.
• Apraxia of speech: Sherry is trained in the Kaufman approach and PROMPT
• Articulation delays
• Word-finding disorders
• Diagnostic evaluations in articulation and language

Consulting

• IEP/PPT and Annual Review consultation
• Pre-school and elementary school observations

Contracted services to public and non-public schools

Language enhancement for typically developing children:

Sherry consults with parents through individual play sessions in the home with you and your child. She typically sees children every three months, beginning ideally at three months of age, but anytime before three years of age to:

• Describe normal development for your child’s age in the areas of speech and language, attention and listening skills
• Demonstrate 15-20 proven strategies to enhance speech and language development
• Share insights on expanding the scope of your child’s play            
• Review your toys and books and offer suggestions as to which ones are appropriate for your child’s age as well as how to use them flexibly and creatively to stimulate language
• Offer a plan individually tailored to the developmental stage of your child
• Reveal the most common mistakes we make as parents or caregivers as we talk to our child
• Answer individual concerns of parents such as:
• “How can I best help my baby to become bi-lingual?”
• “How can I keep my baby’s interest in a book?”
• “My baby isn’t babbling as much lately, is that okay?”
• “What about infant videos?”
• Provide parents at the end of the play session with a detailed handout of information as well as suggestions for kinds of toys and books appropriate for their child’s stage of development

 

Consulting:

• Consultation with businesses associated with toys, books and videos to enhance children’s language
• Consultation with associated businesses that provide programs for children such as art, music and foreign language
• In-service training for preschools on language expectations and enhancement in the classroom