Social Communication Assessment & Training
Social Communication Assessment Visit
The Wait Your Turn approach to social communication training was developed to focus training on the adult versus treating the child. Since it is the child’s parent(s) and caregivers who spend the most time with the child it makes the most sense to train the adult to be the child’s language facilitator. As speech-language pathologists we are trained how to optimize language learning through strategies and techniques. However, those strategies are rarely shared with the general public. Wait Your Turn will train you how to be the best language and communication model you can be.
Benefits to Parents & Teachers
Through coaching both parents and teachers can learn how to be optimal language models and build strong communicators for life.
KSLC offers teacher training programs throughout CT public schools and private day-cares, pre-schools and day-schools. To schedule a training at your school please contact us
Benefits to Children
Communication skills have a profound effect of a child’s well-being. Issues ranging from Shyness to stuttering to ADD / ADHD can significantly impact a child’s self esteem and quality of life. Working with Children and teaching parents and caregivers how to promote healthy communication skills provides children with a valuable head start in life.
More serious issues such as Autism Spectrum Disorders and Asperger’s Syndrome are important to identify early and can often be assessed and helped though our services.
For school age children, we supplement students’ Individualized Education Plans (IEP) to address the real life issues that result from social challenges such as making and keeping friends, problem solving during a play date, and managing daily transitions. We can also provide second opinions, or offer a full battery of speech and language tests for initial evaluations. Our approaches for social communication training (pragmatic language therapy) listed below reflect the most recent findings in evidence- based treatment, and have been proven to be established methods of intervention.
- Naturalistic Treatment
- Story Based Intervention
- Peer Training Package
- Joint Attention Interaction
- Modeling
Click here for a report on research.
Whether your child is normally developing, or shows possible differences, you as a parent or caregiver can benefit by:
- Our careful play analysis during an everyday activity in your natural home environment
- A baseline measure of how you are using strategies that will enhance the child social development, and how the child is responding to your interactive style.
- A personal review of our findings on your use of adult strategies during play, and the child’s current level of communication development based on chronological age.
- Targeting strategies that will optimize the child’s social language development, and goals for what your child should be doing next.
- Follow up coaching to assess your progress, and the consequent progress in your child’s interaction skills
- Any additional resources
Visit includes an adult-child play analysis to target adult communication strategies and child communication behaviors for change. The initial session will include a review of the evaluation findings, and offer critical language and communication strategies for you to use with your child. Further coaching sessions are offered as needed.
$350.00 Office (Reimbursed by most insurance providers)
$400.00- Home (private pay only), or independent school evaluations
Additional Follow-up Coaching: $90.00
Skype/Webcam Social Communication Assessment Visit
(prepayment is required; you will be redirected to a history/intake form after payment is complete.)
For our “geographically challenged” customers, or our local customers who wish to not have anyone come to their house, all of the above home services can also be provided through the use of Skype and a webcam. By live recording over the internet, you can capture a typical play session with your child while a licensed speech-language pathologist observes on her office computer. A written analysis will be emailed or sent to you, and a follow up visit will be scheduled to review the results and set the adult-child goals. Subsequent coaching sessions can then be arranged as well.
Visit includes adult-child play observation from your home computer, a full evaluation report to be sent at a later date, and a 30 minute follow up coaching session to be schedule at the time of the initial vist, and usually will take place within 2 weeks from the first session. The follow up session will review the evaluation findings, and offer critical language and communication strategies for you to use with your child. Further coaching sessions are offered as needed, or desired. Skype account required (It’s free!).
Initial Assessment $300.00
Additional Follow-up Coaching: $90.00
Package – initial assessment and coaching
with 3 additional training sessions: $500.00 (Savings of $70.00)
Video Social Communication Training Analysis
(prepayment is required; you will be redirected to a history/intake form after payment is complete.)
If you do not have a web camera, or prefer to video tape at your leisure: Simply prepare a 20-30 minute video sample of a play interaction with you and your child and send to: Judy Rosenfield, 225 Hopmeadow Street, #500, Weatogue, CT 06089 (Video tape or DVD)
Once the video is reviewed, an evaluation report is completed and returned via email or U.S. mail. Once the report is received, a follow up telephone or Skype coaching session is then scheduled to review recommendations.
$300.00
Comments or questions are welcome.