Services Offered

example of play-based child-led speech therapy services

Sam’s Specialty Areas:

  • augmentative and alternative communication (AAC)

  • echolalia and gestalt language processing

  • feeding and swallowing (oral motor or sensory based feeding disorders)

  • early language development (analytic or gestalt language processors)

  • executive functioning (attention, memory, self-monitoring, organization, planning)

  • speech-sound production (specifically self-monitoring for generalization)

Experience with individuals ages 1 through adulthood with complex medical, developmental and behavioral diagnoses 

example of speech therapist modeling on AAC device

AAC Services

Direct therapy intervention, parent/caregiver coaching, device programming, training, or acquisition

Experience with the following high-tech systems: LAMP Words for Life, TD Snap, TouchChat, Avaz, Proloquo2go, Grid, CoughDrop, and Communicator 5

Access Methods (how the user makes selections on their device): pointing, eye gaze, one switch, two switches, neuronode (wearable spatial or EMG sensor)

Parent/Caregiver Coaching

AAC implementation in daily routines

Transition to adulthood - supporting complex communicators before, during, and after the transition

Programming/personalization of AAC systems

AAC Device Acquisition (through insurance or private pay)

IEP review

Currently Accepting: Private Pay & Masshealth