Our Services
At Growing Minds, we offer a range of services tailored to each child's unique needs across a variety of settings to ensure flexibility, convenience, and personalization.
Evaluations
We conduct comprehensive evaluations to accurately identify each child's strengths and areas for growth, ensuring that our therapy plans are well-informed and functional.
Individual Therapy
One-on-one therapy sessions are designed to provide personalized attention and targeted interventions, helping each child make progress toward their communication goals.
Group Therapy
Group therapy sessions foster communication skills in a supportive environment, allowing children to practice and develop their abilities alongside peers.
Consulting/ Coaching
Consulting services are offered to ensure cohesive support. We collaborate with parents, schools, occupational therapists, physical therapists, and counselors to share consistent and effective strategies and support transferring of skills.
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Early intervention is crucial for addressing developmental delays and promoting effective communication skills from a young age. At Growing Minds SLP, we work with children and their families to create individualized plans that target specific needs, ensuring the best possible outcomes during these formative years.
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Our speech sound therapy focuses on helping children produce clear and accurate speech sounds. We address articulation and phonological disorders, working to improve how children pronounce sounds and words, enhancing their overall speech intelligibility.
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Expressive Language: Our expressive language therapy helps children effectively convey their thoughts and ideas. We focus on expanding vocabulary, improving sentence structure, and enhancing storytelling abilities, enabling children to express themselves more clearly and confidently.
Receptive Language: In receptive language therapy, we assist children in understanding and processing spoken language. This includes following directions, comprehending questions, and interpreting information, which are essential for effective communication and learning.
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For children who process language in chunks rather than individual words, we offer specialized therapy to support their communication and learning style. Our approach helps these children break down and understand language components, improving their overall communication skills.
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Our social communication therapy aims to enhance children's pragmatic language. We work on identifying thoughts and feelings, advocating for themselves, understanding how the social world works, and building preferred yet meaningful relationships, essential for successful social interactions.
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Executive functioning skills are vital for planning, organizing, and completing tasks. Our therapy targets areas such as initiation, planning, organization, working memory, flexible thinking, and self-control, helping children manage their daily activities more effectively and independently.
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Fluency therapy focuses on helping children produce the speech they prefer to use. We use evidence-based techniques to promote smooth and natural speech patterns, boosting confidence and communication efficiency.
Service Delivery
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Home
We bring our expertise directly to your home, providing a comfortable and familiar environment for speech therapy sessions. This approach allows for personalized interventions and strategies that integrate seamlessly into daily routines.
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School
Our school-based services ensure that children receive the support they need within their educational setting. We collaborate with teachers and staff to implement effective communication strategies that enhance learning and social interaction.
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Camp
We offer services at camps to support children in developing their communication skills in a fun and interactive environment. This setting provides unique opportunities for practicing speech, language, social, and EF skills in real-world situations.
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Virtually
Our remote therapy services utilize teletherapy to deliver high-quality speech and language interventions. This flexible option allows families to access our expertise from the convenience of their own home, ensuring continuity of care regardless of location.
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Travel Areas
In-home speech therapy services are provided across NYC and Hamptons. Areas include:
NYC - Greenwich Village, Noho, Soho, West Village, East Village, Tribeca, Upper East Side, Upper West Side, Chelsea, Flatiron and Fidi.
Out East - Montauk, Amagansett, East, South, Sag Harbor, Sagaponack, Watermill.