Parent Coaching
From language development to feeding skills - we are here to help!
Your day is busy. Between play dates, laundry, errands, and meal prep, little time remains for you to create opportunities to teach your child necessary developmental skills.
There is also SO much information out there on when to start introducing solids, what solids to introduce, and ways to approach pediatric feeding, but sometimes it can be overwhelming especially if you are nervous about this next step!
This is where parent coaching comes in. We are here to show you how everyday activities can easily be turned into opportunities for communication growth. Let us be your personal parent guide and show you the way to supporting your child’s development with language and/or feeding skills!
What is Parent Coaching?
Parent coaching involves personalized, one-on-one sessions with a skilled speech language pathologist. Depending on your location and preference, we can provide them in your home or on a virtual call. We will give you a plan and referrals if necessary.
Virtual
In-home
These sessions provide you with the strategies and tools you need to enhance your child’s communication and/or feeding skills and ensure they don’t get behind in critical areas of development. You will be provided with ways to increase your child’s speech and language development using items already in your home and during activities that are already part of your routine.
Language development
Vocabulary
Increasing utterances
Following directions
Social Communication & Play
If feeding is a concern, you will also be provided with tips to feel confident during this stage of your child’s life. The following areas of feeding can be discussed during our parent consults:
Bottle Aversion
Picky Eating
How to navigate navigating solids
With Parent Coaching you will be able to:
Increase communication skills with your child in the form of gestures, vocalizations, and/or words
Learn how to build your child’s expressive vocabulary and increase their utterances with tools already in your home environment
Learn how to work in receptive language skills including following directions and building receptive vocabulary knowledge
Learn how to facilitate play skills and how to play with your child while increasing their vocabulary!
Learn what foods are best and safest to start with when introducing solids.
Learn ways to increase oral exploration with food to increase textures and oral intake!
Learn ways to navigate bottle aversions including strategies to try!
Speech Therapy: speech therapy includes direct services to diagnose and treat impairments in the areas of expressive language, receptive language, pragmatic language, articulation/speech sound disorders, feeding disorders, vocal disorders, fluency disorders, and communication disorders. Sessions are typically 1-2 times a week and continue until the area(s) of delay have been remediated.
Parent Coaching: parent coaching includes educating the parent and/or caregiver in their home and/or through virtual services to help provide you with the strategies and tools you need to enhance your child’s communication and/or feeding skills and ensure they don’t get behind in critical areas of development. Parent coaching is available to assist families even when a delay is not present.
Speech therapy is meant for children who have been diagnosed with a speech/language delay, and the goal of parent coaching is to benefit all children!
**Parent coaching sessions DO NOT take the place of a full and individualized speech, language, and/or feeding evaluation. If your therapist suspects a delay present or milestones are not being met, a full evaluation is not required but may be recommended.
How does Parent Coaching compare to Speech Therapy?
