Jamie is trained in the Orton-Gillingham (“OG”) Approach. Jamie has also completed the fidelity certification through the Institute for Multi Sensory Education. OG is a direct, explicit, multi-sensory, structured, sequential, diagnostic, and prescriptive way to teach literacy when reading, writing, and spelling does not come easily, such as for those with dyslexia.

Early Intervention (EI) helps to develop receptive and expressive language for infants through age 3.

This type of speech therapy treats speech-sound and phonological disorders.

Speech and language therapy can help a child develop their receptive and expressive language skills. Goals targeted include (but are not limited to) improving verbal and reading comprehension, expanding verbal utterances, improving grammar and syntax, etc.

For some children, math is a tough subject and they may require extra support. Others may need support developing their social communication skills with direct instruction. These skills can include initiating and maintaining conversation, sharing, turn taking, problem solving and more.

Phonological awareness is the foundation for learning to read. It is the ability to understand and work with sounds in spoken language. Phonemic awareness is the ability to identify and manipulate individual phonemes (sounds) in words, like understanding the word ‘cat’ is made up of ‘c-a-t’. These skills are crucial to develop for early or emergent readers.

Speech therapy for individuals who stutter can focus on fluency enhancing strategies, self-advocating, identifying and working through the emotions that often accompany stuttering, and more.