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"Movement and play in a purposeful way...Because communication doesn't just happen at a table."

Treatment Tools, Strategies and Approaches

Animal Interactions

Animal Interactions

Animal Interactions

Animal assisted speech, language or feeding therapy is the planned inclusion of an animal in a patient’s treatment session. The animals, and interactions with them, can be used to:

  • Increase client motivation and participation in treatment.
  • Provide an engaging and meaningful way to target the 5 main areas that SLPs treat (speech, language, s

Animal assisted speech, language or feeding therapy is the planned inclusion of an animal in a patient’s treatment session. The animals, and interactions with them, can be used to:

  • Increase client motivation and participation in treatment.
  • Provide an engaging and meaningful way to target the 5 main areas that SLPs treat (speech, language, social communication, cognitive-communication and swallowing).

Animals we work with include horses, donkeys, sheep, goats, chickens, rabbits, cats, and dogs.

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DIR®Floortime

Animal Interactions

Animal Interactions

The Developmental, Individual Difference, Relationship-based (DIR®) Model is used to help build healthy foundations for social, emotional, and intellectual capacities. This in turn helps to develop critical cognitive, social, emotional, language, and motor skills, as well as a sense of self.

Research related to the DIRFloortime model su

The Developmental, Individual Difference, Relationship-based (DIR®) Model is used to help build healthy foundations for social, emotional, and intellectual capacities. This in turn helps to develop critical cognitive, social, emotional, language, and motor skills, as well as a sense of self.

Research related to the DIRFloortime model supports its effectiveness in improving the core challenges of autism including relating, interacting, and communicating while decreasing caregiver stress and improving parent-child relationships.

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Hippotherapy

Animal Interactions

Hippotherapy

Hippotherapy refers to the inclusion of purposefully manipulated equine movement in a speech session for the purposes of:

  • Engaging sensory, neuromotor and cognitive systems to promote functional outcomes.
  • Increasing client motivation, engagement and participation in treatment. 
  • Providing graded and rhythmic input to support the systems that 

Hippotherapy refers to the inclusion of purposefully manipulated equine movement in a speech session for the purposes of:

  • Engaging sensory, neuromotor and cognitive systems to promote functional outcomes.
  • Increasing client motivation, engagement and participation in treatment. 
  • Providing graded and rhythmic input to support the systems that impact the 5 main areas that SLPs treat (speech, language, social communication, cognitive-communication and swallowing).

Read more about Hippotherapy

Therapy Outdoors

Speech Therapy in the Pool

Therapy Outdoors

Our beautiful 13 acre facility provides an exceptional opportunity for therapy session outdoors.  Our outdoor space includes an adaptive playground, gardens and sensory trails and open spaces.  

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LSVT LOUD

Speech Therapy in the Pool

Therapy Outdoors

  What is LSVT LOUD? 

LSVT LOUD refers  to the Lee Silverman Voice Treatment. LSVT LOUD is an effective speech  treatment for people with Parkinson's disease (PD) and other  neurological conditions. LSVT LOUD trains people with PD to use their  voice at a more normal loudness level while speaking at home, work, or  in the community. Key to

  What is LSVT LOUD? 

LSVT LOUD refers  to the Lee Silverman Voice Treatment. LSVT LOUD is an effective speech  treatment for people with Parkinson's disease (PD) and other  neurological conditions. LSVT LOUD trains people with PD to use their  voice at a more normal loudness level while speaking at home, work, or  in the community. Key to the treatment is helping people "recalibrate"  their perceptions so they know how loud or soft they sound to other  people and can feel comfortable using a stronger voice at a normal  loudness level.

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Speech Therapy in the Pool

Speech Therapy in the Pool

Speech Therapy in the Pool

 Speech/language therapy in the pool is available in July and August.   

Speech therapy in the pool can be used to:

  • Provide a language rich and motivating activity for speech and language therapy.
  • Increase joint attention and attention to a task (a foundation for building strong language skills). 
  • Perform lip and mouth closure.
  • Improve verbali

 Speech/language therapy in the pool is available in July and August.   

Speech therapy in the pool can be used to:

  • Provide a language rich and motivating activity for speech and language therapy.
  • Increase joint attention and attention to a task (a foundation for building strong language skills). 
  • Perform lip and mouth closure.
  • Improve verbalization, articulation, descriptive language and sentence richness.
  • Encourage play and social interaction.

Book a free phone consultation to learn more

PROMPT© Therapy

Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)

Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)

PROMPT© stands for "Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic  Targets".  It is a dynamic tactile method, used for the treatment of motor speech disorders.  PROMPT is highly effective for improving speech and helping patients develop sounds because it provides visual, auditory, tactile, kinesthetic and proprioceptive cues the spee

PROMPT© stands for "Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic  Targets".  It is a dynamic tactile method, used for the treatment of motor speech disorders.  PROMPT is highly effective for improving speech and helping patients develop sounds because it provides visual, auditory, tactile, kinesthetic and proprioceptive cues the speech system.
PROMPT© is used for the following reasons:

  • To develop an interactive focus or awareness for oral communication.
  • To develop an integrated, tactile-kinesthetic associative mapping for cognitive or linguistic concepts.
  • To develop, balance or restructure speech subsystems at the sound, word or phrase level.

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Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)

Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)

Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)

 AAC includes all of the ways that we share our ideas and feelings without talking.  We are able to assess, select and implement AAC use for our clients.  We help our clients learn to use AAC across environments and activities.  Our therapists have experience with various forms of AAC, including:

  • Communication boards
  • LAMP
  • Tobii Dynavox
  • TouchC

 AAC includes all of the ways that we share our ideas and feelings without talking.  We are able to assess, select and implement AAC use for our clients.  We help our clients learn to use AAC across environments and activities.  Our therapists have experience with various forms of AAC, including:

  • Communication boards
  • LAMP
  • Tobii Dynavox
  • TouchChat
  • Proloquo2Go 
  • GoTalk
  • CoreScanner
  • Eye gaze systems
  • And many more

Read more about AAC

The SOS Approach To Feeding

Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)

The SOS Approach To Feeding

The Sequential Oral Sensory (SOS) Approach to Feeding program was developed by Dr. Kay Toomey.  SOS is an evidenced based and effective way to address problematic feeding behaviors, and to expand the number of foods a "picky eater" consumes.

The SOS Approach To Feeding is used to help children with feeding difficulties develop a healthy, lifelong, positive relationship with food.  

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Speech Language Pathology in Motion

300 Wheeler Rd, Hauppauge, New York 11788, United States

Phone: (631) 479-3393 ex. 3 Fax: (631) 479-3358