Under Alecia's guidance, our six-year-old daughter has made remarkable progress in her reading and…read morecomprehension skills. She can read multi-syllable words more confidently than ever before. Her reading abilities have improved to the point where she is reading street and business signs, a task she showed no interest in during her kindergarten year. Each tutoring session with Alecia is a unique experience tailored to our daughter's needs. Given her struggles with emotional regulation and ADHD, sessions have taken place in unconventional settings such as the floor, under tables, or on whiteboards. Alecia's adaptability and understanding of our daughter's needs in the moment are truly commendable. Navigating the world of language is challenging, and so is advocating for a child's needs in and out of the classroom. Alecia takes the time to explain why our daughter struggles with reading, to name one thing, and also how the activities she is working on will help. Alecia also provides suggestions on interventions that may help in the classroom that follow along with our daughter's IEP. Alecia's communication skills are exceptional. She is always responsive and takes great care to ensure we, as parents, understand the care plan. Her ability to explain complex issues in a clear and concise manner is reassuring. If you are looking to add an experienced, holistic Speech Therapist to your care team, do not pass up Alecia with Thrive Therapy.

From the owner: We offer client-centered home-based and telehealth Speech Therapy Services for children and adults…read more Areas of focus include speech, language, communication, cognition, voice, and swallowing. LSVT LOUD(R) and Vital Stim(R) certified. Free consultations and a secure client portal are available for your convenience.

We were only at Kids Innovative Developmental Services for a little over a year, but I have nothing…read morebut great things to say about the people who work here and the services we received. My kid worked with Christine, the speech-language pathologist, on a stutter that developed when he was in late elementary school. By the time he was in middle school, it was something he wanted to seek help with, so we reached out to Kids Innovative. I was a little concerned that they might not take my kid because he was so much older than the kids in the pictures on their website! And yes, it's true that Kids Innovative seems to skew toward younger kids -- we saw a lot of preschool- and elementary-aged kids during our visits. My kid was usually the oldest in the waiting room. But I think it's because speech and occupational impairments tend to present themselves at a younger age. Nevertheless, they DO take older kids, and bonus: they DO take many kinds of insurance! Very few speech therapy places take insurance, so it was a huge relief to find this place. A year of working with Christine helped my kid tremendously. She was patient, kind and always available to answer questions, and very flexible with her schedule. She would give us "homework" to work on or ideas to think about, which I appreciated. Eventually, my kid aged out of Kids Innovative, and Christine gave us a recommendation for a more specialized therapist who works with older kids. So we've transitioned to a new therapist, but I'll always be thankful for the help we got at Kids Innovative.

Extremely happy with Jill Owens, the Talking Time speech therapist assigned to us through First…read moreSteps. We had nothing but an amazing and highly professional experience and our 2,5 yr old was very sad when we no longer needed the weekly speech sessions because his speech developed so well thanks to Jill's skills. Until this day, she loves to hear updates on our son's milestones. I truly cannot say enough good words about our experience and highly recommend Jill and Talking Time.

Our family was introduced to Talking Time through First Steps. We had the pleasure of working with…read moreseveral very talented Therapists assigned to us though First Steps. When our child aged out of a First Steps Talking Time agreed to allow for us to pay for ongoing outpatient care for our child at school and home. This care continued for two years and in that time we experienced high turn over with the Speech Theripists assigned to our child. Our child's outpatient Speech Therpy sessions became unpredictable and on several occasions our Speech Therapist didn't show up. Then to our disappointment with no notice we were told that Talking Time could no longer provide services to our special needs child. Failure to provide our family adequate notice left us scrambling to find alternative speech therapy for our child. Our family has paid this school thousands of dollars. Disappointing ending to a long and expensive relationship that was very important to our family and our child.