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Services Offered

Kathleen Florance, CCC/SLP-L has touched the lives of many individuals through her unwavering commitment to the well-being of the “whole person”. Particularly when working with children, hers is a distinct holistic and integrative learning approach, which enlists parents as active and essential members of the therapeutic process. This model draws upon neuro-scientific research and her extensive clinical experiences. 

1:1 Therapy Sessions are conducted in a variety of time blocks, depending on the needs of the individual. 

Focuses include interventions for:

• Executive Functioning Skills, including: meta-cognition, critical thinking, self-regulation; intrinsic motivation, perspective-taking, problem-solving, inferencing, predicting, reasoning, organization...
   

• Literacy, including: 
   
  o language skills fundamental to reading and writing skills; 
  o digital literacy skills as tools for language and learning;
  o disciplinary literacy skills (literacy across a variety of content areas); 
  o and strategic writing interventions
   

• Child to adolescent developmental speech-language delays and disorders, both receptive and expressive, including those involving:
   
  o Phonology
  o Morphology
  o Syntax
  o Semantics
  o Aphasia 
  o Apraxia
  o Stuttering/Dysfluency
  o Neuro-diversity, including Autism Spectrum Disorders
  o Dyslexia
  o Vocabulary Development
  o Pragmatics of Language

Relevant Assessments and Evaluations will be determined on an individual basis.

Inter-Professional Collaboration is an integral component of Kathleen’s practice. This involves support and communication among all involved, including Parents/Guardians, Neuropsychology, Neurology, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Expressive/Music/Art Therapy and School Personnel, as appropriate.

Implementation of Outreach Services is offered with particular focus on:

• Development of connections between listening, talking, reading and writing

• Support for social language and emotional skill development

• Collaboration for discipline-specific literacy supports

• Creation of professional development opportunities to further support language, learning and literacy goals