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- Teresa
- Newmark
- No
- 661 Chenery Street
San Francisco
California
94131
United States - SF Speech Therapy
San Francisco
California
94131
United States
My treatment approach starts with building rapport and motivation, recognizing that while speech therapy can be hard work, we learn best when we are inspired to work together towards a common goal. Treatment targets speech movement and coordination following the principles of motor learning. Children become more successful through frequent practice of carefully chosen target sounds, syllables, words and phrases. Sessions incorporate specific feedback and multimodal cueing to shape and maintain accurate production. Multimodal cueing incorporates visual cues, auditory cues, and tactile cues in the form of facial touch. More frequent, shorter sessions are offered when possible and families are given a home program to promote generalization.
While I am an expert in speech and language, parents are experts on their children, and as such are respected, appreciated and vital pieces of the therapy puzzle. I work collaboratively with parents throughout treatment. Specific areas of collaboration might include: 1. Parent interview to determine the best way to motivate, engage and promote enjoyment for the child 2. Parent participation in a home program to generalize speech skills across settings 3. Parent education around the rationale for specific therapy practices 4. Check-ins to understand how the child is doing holistically, how CAS may be impacting this, and problem solving any areas of concern
My priority is to provide children with access to multimodal means of communication to support their ability to communicate their thoughts and ideas clearly. In my practice I have found what research says to be true: children provided with opportunities to use robust AAC early develop a better understanding of the power of communication, which leads to gains in receptive and expressive language and spoken output. We are also fortunate to have an AAC expert on staff who can support decisions around AAC implementation.
