Speech Therapy

With our world open again, our Speech Therapy (ST) Team in 2022 was active in every corner and a part of every activity across campus.

Our team this year integrated into and coordinated with every program to increase communication opportunities for our students and residents. This involved teaching both the students and residents as well as all their therapists, teachers, and other staff on their care team.

Visit our Thanksgiving Farm and Community School and you will see an 18 year old realizing his dream of working in a pizza place. Our team worked with him to find the language around the ingredients, cooking, ordering, and delivering, and strategized with his teachers to also include his classmates. He is now making and delivering allergy-friendly pies twice a month.

Our team members working with the Day Habilitation program initiated a new sewing program of seasonal all-day-wear T-shirt smocks using various communication skills including gestures, voice output devices, personalized communication devices and verbal language to help them choose and modify color and design, and operate specially adapted sewing machines.

Compassionate communication is the core of all we do here at The Center

By Maria Landon, MS, CC-SLP, Director of Speech Therapy

16,078

School-Aged Speech Therapy Sessions

Conducted in 2022

5,061

Adult Speech Therapy Sessions

Conducted in 2022

2022