3 Great Places for Speech Therapy in Seattle

by Holly F.

As the largest city in the Pacific Northwest, Seattle boasts a host of resources for families looking for family activities, the outdoors, history and good food. It’s a great place to visit with kids, from Pike Place Market and Seattle Center to the Woodland Park Zoo and the Seattle Aquarium. But for families living there looking for great speech-therapy, Seattle offers even more options than you might think.  Three great clinics for speech therapy in Seattle can provide your child with services to address articulation, language, social pragmatics and more. 

Rock Therapy Services Located just 50 minutes away from the heart of Seattle in Enumclaw, WA, Rock Therapy Services has been a locally owned speech pathology clinic since 2002. Their speech-pathologists provide services to the greater Puget Sound region and accept a variety of insurance providers. Rock Therapy Services provides speech therapy from highly-skilled SLPs for a variety of pediatric populations with communication needs including expressive language impairments, receptive language impairments, articulation, autism, dysphagia and more. What make this place unique? Not only do they offer speech therapy, but Rock Therapy in collaboration with APPLE Consulting! Provides ABA and educational services. These can be great for navigating the IEP process and include everything from functional behavior assessments to IEP consultations, intensive early intervention, playdates and more.

 

 

Cascade Children’s Therapy Looking for speech therapy, and then some? Try Cascade Children’s Therapy in Mill Creek, WA that offers not only speech but occupational therapy and physical therapy too. Occupational therapy can be a great compliment to speech therapy for meeting the sensory needs of children who need it. Physical therapy can be beneficial for children with gross motor challenges. Cascade Children’s Therapy serves children from birth to adolescence. A unique speech-language offering is the Hanen approach. Hanen is a researched based treatment technique developed to help children and provide parent training for enhancing strategies and development. Therapists at Cascade Children’s Therapy utilize the It Takes Two to Talk principles in speech therapy sessions and the More Than Words program – used to help parents promote communication and social skills in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. They also offer NDT, Alert, Floortime, PROMPT, Beckman oral motor and Kaufman Speech Praxis treatment.

 

 

ABC Speech Therapy at Kitsap Children’s Therapy Also for children that need multidisciplinary support that includes speech therapy, occupational therapy and physical therapy, Kitsap Children’s Therapy is an all-encompassing clinic offering evaluations and treatment in all three disciplines. The clinic is located in Paulsbo, WA and serves a variety of disorders including: cerebral palsy, developmental delay, autism spectrum, Asperger’s, spina bifida, genetic disorders, past brain injury, spinal injury, muscle diseases, orthopedic conditions, apraxia and dyslexia.   To locate providers in your state or additional resources in the state of Washington, visit the America Speech Language Hearing Association’s (ASHA) website. When finding the right SLP, be sure to look for state licensure, ASHA certification and experience with the disorder in which your child is seeking therapy.

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