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Therapeutic Play

For those children, 18-30 months, who need, or are receiving, speech therapy and require more treatment-based focus and support to participate in a preschool, or group setting. Our goal is to facilitate language skills in play-based activities that actively engage a child in reciprocal communication. We hope to increase the child’s readiness to participate in classroom settings along with his or her same-aged peers, increasing opportunities for social pragmatic practice.

These classes are taught by licensed Speech Pathologists, and class size is limited to four children. Teacher to student ratio is 1:2 to support a therapeutic approach facilitating language development, group play, and class participation skills. While classes also focus on child specific developmental skills, they are primarily therapeutic in approach and content. In addition to these classes, we highly recommend our individual speech therapy services to support communication gains and promote carry-over of skills from individual to group settings.