Insurers
I currently accept:
- Medicaid
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Centennial (AKA Medicaid)
- Cigna
- Molina
- Presbyterian
- Presbyterian Turquoise Care (AKA Salud, Centennial, and/or Medicaid)
- Tricare West
- UnitedHealthcare
- Self-Pay ($96 for each 45-minute appointment)
Evaluations
The best way to know whether a child can benefit from speech and/or language treatment is to complete an evaluation. The tests I use for evaluations include books and toys that are fun for children to complete. I try to make every evaluation as enjoyable as possible for children by including breaks to play, stickers, and/or a small toy as a prize for completing tests.
Treatment
Children learn best when they’re having fun! Each treatment appointment is tailored to each individual child’s strengths, struggles, interests, and preferences.
I treat patients…
- …in my office,
- …via telehealth,
- …in the community such as in schools (not usually covered by insurance),
- …and at their homes (not usually covered by insurance).
Conditions I treat:
- Articulation Disorder
- Phonological Disorder
- Childhood Apraxia of Speech
- Expressive Language Disorder
- Lisp
- Mixed Receptive-Expressive Language Disorder
- Delayed Language Development
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Asperger’s Syndrome
- Hyperlexia
- Selective Mutism
- Childhood-Onset Fluency Disorder
- Stuttering
- …and more!
Treatment techniques I use:
- Naturalistic activities
- No-Drama Discipline
- The Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS)
- Total Communication
- Hanen Centre’s® It Takes Two to Talk®, More Than Words®, & TalkAbility™ programs (see more below)
- Sound Contrasts in Phonology (SCIP) for minimal pair and treatment of the empty set cards
- Sensory supports
- Parent-Implemented Intervention
- Peer-Implemented Intervention
- Animal-Assisted Intervention
- Social Skill Groups and/or Pairs
- Positive Reinforcement
- The Zones of Regulation
- Superflex
- Comic Strip Conversations
- …and more!
The Hanen Centre® Programs
The Hanen Centre’s It Takes Two to Talk®, More Than Words®, and TalkAbility™ programs have been clinically proven to improve children’s communication skills by teaching their parents tools to use during everyday interactions like eating snack, reading, or playing. Each program provides parents with tools to help their child develop stronger communication skills.
I am a Hanen-certified Speech Language Pathologist who offers these programs to parents as an add-on to individual treatment sessions. This allows the programs to be individualized to each family’s needs and pace.
Click here to join the waiting list for a Hanen Centre® Class.