Treatment and Evaluations

Speech services provide evaluations, program recommendations, and/or treatment/training in receptive and expressive language, voice, articulation, and fluency for consumers ages three and over in a variety of settings (i.e. consumer’s home, a group home, a developmental home (child or adult), or BCSNA’s office). Our service objectives include: a complete assessment/evaluation (which can include: oral peripheral mechanism; feeding; current language levels; phonation/respiration; imitation, inner (cognitive) language, receptive and expressive language, sign language; learning style, articulation and equipment needs; and need for augmentative/assistive technology); collaboration with parents, consumer representatives, teachers, paraprofessionals and others involved with the consumer to ensure comprehensive and coordinated efforts for the consumer; recommendations of integrated functional activities and instruction to consumers and/or parents, consumer representatives, teachers, paraprofessionals and others involved to incorporate these activities into the daily routines, in support of measurable outcomes/objectives/goals; collaboration with others (including the school programs and other therapists), training for families/consumer representatives, review programs, and attending meetings; as well as continued contact with school therapists to ensure consistency across environments.