508.540.8600  
info@speechandlearningcenter.com   

 

Summer 2017 Programs and Offerings

Walk/Talks for "balancing" ~ New this year
Wednesdays 9-10 a.m. Meet at Old Dock Road Bike Path Parking. Topics will vary, suggestions welcome. $5/person.


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


 

 

Speech & Learning Consulting
P.O. Box 827
North Falmouth, MA 02556-0827

508.540.8600

Kathleen M. Florance, CCC/SLP-L, owner/director

info@speechandlearningcenter.com