Sheryl Stevens, M.S., CCC-SLP
Speech-Language Pathologist
Services and Specialties
“Don't be embarrassed by your [challenges]. Learn from them and start again" ~ Sir Richard Branson
Comprehensive Speech-Language Evaluations
Assessment of speech-language skills is a complex process. I provide a comprehensive speech-language evaluation to identify your child's unique speech/language needs. The assessment process includes:
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Collecting background information about your child's birth, medical, educational, and family history.
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Conducting personalized standardized and non-standardized testing to assess your child's expressive and receptive language skills, pragmatic language skills, articulation, fluency, voice.
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Writing a speech-language evaluation report that outlines your child's speech/language strengths and needs
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Making recommendations for next steps, including any follow-up assessments and treatment.
Speech-Language Therapy
I develop a unique speech-language therapy plan that relates to the needs of your child. Speech therapy should be motivating and fun! In addition to creating motivating materials for therapy sessions, I will provide you with the tools you need to work with your child at home to accelerate the therapy process. If your child is struggling with academics, I work with them and modify reading and/or writing assignments to allow for academic success. Specialties include (but not limited to):
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Articulation disorders
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Receptive language (comprehension)
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Expressive language (word-retrieval, syntax)
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Social skills
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Written language
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Higher level language skills (inferences, predictions, figurative language)
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Fluency Disorders (Stuttering, Cluttering)
Advocacy and Consult Services
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Have general speech/language/social concerns? I can speak with you about overall concerns and recommend next steps
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Has your child already been evaluated in school, privately or in a clinical/hospital setting? I can review documents (including psychological evaluations, educational evaluations, multi-disciplinary evaluations, IEPs), answer questions that were not previously explained in ways that are easily understood, and make recommendations for next steps.
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Check out this podcast on "Stress Free IEP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TWGJsNmOWE