Dr. Ruth Nass of the NYU Medical Center will be conducting a clinical study testing the effectiveness of Buspirone in treating Autism in children ages 2 – 6.
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Pony Club, an empowerment group for girls ages 8-10, begins September 14th at 4:00 at Kensington Stables. Activities include care, grooming, leading and others.
Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens child speech language therapy services in the convenience of your New York City home. All private services are performed by a licensed speech language pathologist. We work with all types of delays and concerns and we travel to many neighborhoods: Manhattan– Upper East Side, Midtown East, Murray Hill, Gramercy, Union Square, East Village, Soho, Upper West Side, Midtown, Chelsea, West Village, Chinatown, Lower East Side.
Brooklyn– Kensington, Midwood, Windsor Terrace, Park Slope, Ditmas Park, Boro Park, Clinton Hill, Fort Greene, Prospect Heights, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn Heights, Downtown Brooklyn, Ditmas Park, Kensington, Prospect Park South, Midwood, Canarsie, Flatbush, Crown Heights, Greenpoint, Williamsburg, Prospect Heights, Bay Ridge, and Dyker Heights.
Queens-– Sunnyside, Woodside, Long Island City, Astoria
Ms. Arberman will discuss what you need to know about the Independent Educational Plan (IEP). An Independent Educational Plan (IEP) is a legal document that describes your child’s needs, goals and mandated supportive services. In this lecture, you will gain knowledge of how to navigate and use the IEP school meeting to advocate for your child. You will obtain the skills to become an “insider”, advocate, and equal partner in the IEP planning and implementation process.
As a mom of an 8-year-old daughter who has a reading disorder (dyslexia), I am starting an informal parent-led support group for parents of children with dyslexia. Much of the information?and support?I have received about dyslexia has been from fellow parents, who often have felt just as isolated and confused. If this sounds like you, please come to our first meeting Tuesday, April 3, from 8-10 a.m.
Dr. Ruth Nass, M.D. is administering a study of the effects of seratonin medication on 2 to 6-year-old autistic children. Studies show that brain levels of serotonin are low in many young children with autism, but by age 6, serotonin levels increase to the point where they are similar to typically developing children. The study examines serotonin replacement during critical developmental years.
Join South Slope resident Dr. Michelle MacRoy-Higgins, Assistant Professor in the Communication Sciences program at Hunter College (CUNY) and a speech therapist with over 15 years of experience, for a parent-friendly discussion on speech and language development and delays in toddlers and preschoolers. She will debunk common myths about speech and language delays, inform you on the current best practices for speech and language therapy, and provide you with practical and effective strategies to incorporate at home to help your child?s communication development; Q&A will follow.
Ms. Arberman will discuss what you need to know about the Independent Educational Plan (IEP). An Independent Educational Plan (IEP) is a legal document that describes your child’s needs, goals and mandated supportive services. In this lecture, you will gain knowledge of how to navigate and use the IEP school meeting to advocate for your child. You will obtain the skills to become an “insider”, advocate, and equal partner in the IEP planning and implementation process.
As much as possible, do not encourage your kids to side with you over their other parent.
We are offering speech language therapy to all ages in the convenience of your home and we travel to Carroll Gardens, Red Hook, Park Slope, Brooklyn Heights, Fort Green, Clinton Hill, Williamsburg, Kensington, Vinegar Hill, Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill, Greenpoint, Prospect Heights, Windsor Terrace, Boerum Hill, Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, Bushwick, Crown Heights, Dyker Park, Bensonhurst, East Flatbush, Ditmas Park, Sunset Park, and Borough Park (Boro Park).
Our Speech & Language Specialists qualifications include:
– Master's degrees in speech language pathology
– New York State and national certification
– Orton-Gillingham approach (40 plus hours-decoding and encoding training)
– PROMPT training
– We offer bilingual services (Spanish, French, Hindi, Gujarati and Urdu)
We are experienced to treat babies to adolescents with a variety of speech language difficulties, including: articulation/enunciation difficulties (e.g., lisp, tongue thrust, and/or difficulty saying sounds), speech delay (including apraxia, oral motor difficulties, cleft palate), late talkers/expressive and receptive language delay (including multilingual homes), autism spectrum, e.g. Asperger's, pervasive developmental disorder (PDD-NOS), social language delays, disfluency (stuttering), and feeding delays (including picky eaters, oral motor delays, medically fragile).
Our expertise includes:
Pronunciation (all ages) & Early Childhood Verbal Expression & School Age Verbal Expression
Social Skills
Stuttering
Listening Difficulties (auditory and language processing)
Aural Rehabilitation
Picky Eaters and Early Childhood Feeding Delays
CONTACT
Feel free to directly email a speech language therapist or contact Craig at [email protected] & 347-394-3485 with any speech, language, feeding, and professional intervention questions.
If you are a Park Slope or Windsor Terrace parent concerned about your young child’s speech, language, and/or communication development, you have come to the right place! Brooklyn Letters will add one of the top New York City speech language therapists to our team. Meet Dr. Michelle MacRoy-Higgins, Assistant Professor at Hunter College and South Slope resident. Her clinical and research interests include speech language delays in young children and she is a seasoned therapist!
We are currently forming a social skills group for 3-4 year olds in Kensington, Brooklyn. What we?ll be working on: Using eye contact to let others know we are listening; Understanding and maintaining personal space; Initiating play with other children; Asking for help when needed; Cooperating, sharing, taking turns and working as part of a group; Exploring a variety of feelings through books and games.
Meet Maura and Nicole: your child’s new best friend! Both are NY licensed speech language therapists with experience working in Brooklyn public schools. They provide professional learning services for elementary, middle school, and high school students who are struggling academically, who have special needs and/or learning disabilities, and for students who are home-schooled.
Meet Maura and Nicole: your child’s new best friend! Both are NY licensed speech language therapists with experience working in Brooklyn public schools. They provide professional learning services for elementary, middle school, and high school students who are struggling academically, who have special needs and/or learning disabilities, and for students who are home-schooled.
Experienced NY State certified teachers specialized in reading intervention helping your child become a more confident reader while addressing decoding (sounding out letters), reading fluency, reading comprehension, and encoding (spelling). Our reading specialists are trained in a variety of approaches including Great Leaps, Sounds in Motion, Orton Gillingham, PAF, and Shelley Padilla is Certified Wilson Instructor.
Join Brooklyn Letter’s pediatric experts Dr. Lindsay Whitman (pediatric neuropsychologist ages 4-18), Jo-Ann Kalb (NY State Certified Teacher & reading interventionist for children ages 5 to 10), and Craig Selinger (speech language therapist for babies to pre-adolescence) for a parent-friendly collaborative discussion on dyslexia (reading disorder). They will debunk common myths, provide up-to-date information on dyslexia, and review the process that should be undertaken to diagnose dyslexia. Finally, practical strategies to use with students (age 5-10) to help their reading development will be provided.
The discussion will take place in Park Slope. Cheese and wine will be provided.
When: Monday October 24th, 6:45pm-8:15 pm.
Lecture 6:45-7:45pm and Q & A 7:45-8:15pm.
Where: 435 15th St. #1 between 8th Ave and Prospect Park West in Park Slope, Brooklyn. One block from the F and G subway- 15th St. stop
Cost: $15 per person. No refund, unless event is canceled. Spots limited to 12 people.
Interested
Email Craig at [email protected] to RSVP. Once confirmed, please mail a check for $15, written out to Craig Selinger, and mail it to 435 15th St. #1, Brooklyn, NY 11215
The JCC in Manhattan at 334 Amsterdam (76th St.) New York, NY
October 25, 2011 from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
The JCC in Manhattan and YAI/NYL/LIFESTART are hosting a Special Needs School Fair.
Our specialized tutors are like the Olympic coaches of language. We specialize in the complete literacy remediation package: reading, writing, speaking, and listening. When we’re working with students, we focus on all areas of language such as both written and verbal skills or both reading and listening comprehension. After all, you can’t have one without the other. That would be like peanut butter minus jelly.
It Takes Two to Talk? is a family-focused program that gives parents or other caregivers of children with language delays in the 2 to 7 year range, practical tools to help their child communicate. The program?s philosophy is that because parents and other family members are the most important people in the child?s life, they are the best people to help their child learn to communicate.
We plan on running social skills groups (2-4 children per group) this summer for children of all ages: Tuesdays between 1-4pm; each group lasts approximately 1 hour. Your child’s social skills will be screened beforehand and we build groups based on the child’s needs. We are happy to run the group in your home!