Evaluations

Before starting therapy, I take time to clearly understand how your child learns and where they are experiencing difficulty across the domains of language and literacy. For most families, this begins with a comprehensive language and literacy evaluation. This evaluation allows us to move beyond guesswork, establish a meaningful baseline, and design intervention that is truly targeted to your child. A typical evaluation costs $800 and includes:

• A 2-3 hour evaluation. I prefer to conduct evaluations in-person via home visit, but I do offer telehealth evaluations via Zoom as needed.

• A detailed written report with diagnostic impressions and practical recommendations (including school accommodations when appropriate)

• A one-on-one results conference to review findings and plan next steps together.

If your child has a recent psychological or speech-language evaluation, we may be able to use that information and either forgo a full evaluation or complete a reduced assessment to address any remaining gaps.

Speech-language evaluations may assess a combination of the following domains of communication:

• Literacy skills (reading & writing, always assessed in tandem with oral language)

• Oral language (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, memory, and vocabulary)

• Articulation (production of speech sounds)

• Fluency (stuttering & cluttering)

• Oral mechanism (structure and function of the mouth, jaw, tongue, etc.)

• Voice (loudness, quality, and pitch)

• Verbal and Nonverbal IQ (screened when indicated)