OUR SERVICES

At Bright Steps, we take a collaborative, family-centered, and holistic approach to treatment.

At Bright Steps, we provide personalized speech, language, and feeding therapy for infants, toddlers, and children. Our team specializes in childhood apraxia of speech, speech sound disorders, language delays, feeding challenges, and social communication differences.

We take a collaborative, family-centered approach to care, working closely with parents, schools, and medical providers to support meaningful progress in everyday life.

Our therapists build strong connections with every child we work with.

Play-based therapy that keeps children engaged while building real skills.

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Speech & Language

Feeding & Oral Motor

Specialized Services

CONSULTATION

We offer complimentary phone consultations to help determine if your child would benefit from a comprehensive speech-language, oral swallow, or feeding evaluation. During the consultation, we’ll learn about your family, discuss your needs and concerns, and answer any questions you may have.

SCREENING

Screenings help identify potential communication, hearing, or feeding and swallowing disorders. They allow us to determine if treatment or referrals are needed.

EVALUATION

A speech-language, oral swallowing, and/or feeding evaluation is conducted to determine a diagnosis (if applicable) and the type and frequency of therapy needed.

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TREATMENT

Following the evaluation, we create personalized goals targeting specific skills based on your child’s capabilities, challenges, and your family’s unique goals.

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Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS)

Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) is a motor speech disorder where the brain struggles to plan and coordinate the muscle movements needed for speech. Children with CAS typically have a solid understanding of language and know what they want to say, but they find it challenging to produce the correct sounds in the right sequence. This results in difficulty articulating words clearly.(https://childapraxiatreatment.org/what-is-cas/).

At Bright Steps, we take a motor-learning approach to treating Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS), utilizing evidence-based techniques that align with the latest research. Unlike traditional phonology-based methods, which often yield limited results, our team of highly trained professionals focuses on specialized treatments like Dynamic Temporal and Tactile Cueing (DTTC), Rapid Syllable Transitions (ReST), and Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets (PROMPT). With years of experience and a strong commitment to each child’s success, we collaborate closely with families to ensure the best possible outcomes for children with CAS.

CAS: Information for Parents
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Pediatric Feeding Therapy

Eating is an important part of your child’s growth and development, but for some children it can be challenging. Feeding difficulties are often related to underlying oral-motor, sensory, or medical factors — not a child being stubborn or defiant. Your child may benefit from feeding therapy if:

  • Your child is not meeting expected levels on the WHO growth chart or failing to gain weight at expected rates
  • Your child has trouble with certain foods due to sensory disorders
  • Your child has an underlying oral-motor deficit or delay
  • Mealtimes are consistently a battle
  • Your child has a complex medical diagnosis
  • Your child is transitioning from tube feeding to oral eating

We offer individual therapy targeting pediatric eating skills that can be offered independently or in addition to other speech and language goals.We offer treatment for the following:

  • Lack of growth/poor growth
  • Food Refusal
  • Picky Eating
  • Limited Variety of Food Consumption
  • Gagging
  • Your child is very selective about which foods they will try/eat and are not getting adequate nutrition

The duration of our feeding programs vary depending on the needs of your child. We offer parent education and training to help with challenging feeding situations as well as how to encourage and reinforce positive behaviors.

Conditions We Commonly Treat

Childhood Apraxia of Speech

Speech Sound Disorders

Language Delays

Late Talkers

Feeding & Oral Motor Disorders

Stuttering / Fluency

Social Communication Differences

AAC & Alternative Communication

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