My services (1:1 or group) for children and adults:

• Articulation Therapy: Teaching children to produce speech sounds accurately to improve clarity in communication.
• Fluency Therapy for Stuttering and Cluttering: Helping children develop techniques for fluent speech and effective communication strategies.
• Phonological Awareness Activities: Addressing atypical speech patterns by introducing and reinforcing correct speech sound patterns.
• Expressive Language Therapy: Enhancing vocabulary, comprehension, and narrative skills through engaging games and activities.
• Receptive Language Therapy: Improving listening skills and understanding of language through interactive games, particularly for children who struggle with following directions or grasping vocabulary.
• Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Therapy: Teaching the use of symbols and other communication systems to facilitate effective message sharing.
• Cognitive Rehabilitation Activities: Supporting individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI), stroke, or concussion by teaching coping strategies and cognitive skills.
• Occupational Therapy Activities: Engaging in hands-on activities such as crafts, gardening, music, and photography to promote fine motor skills and creative expression.
• Literacy Support: Assisting children in overcoming learning disabilities and enhancing reading and comprehension skills through targeted practice and strategies.
• Special Education Support Services: Providing guidance and encouragement to help children reach their potential and take pride in their accomplishments.

Services Offered for Children (In-School or At-Home for Kingston City Residents)

• If you have concerns about your child's communication skills, please contact a speech pathology clinic to schedule an appointment. While I do not conduct assessments, I can plan, implement, and document treatment sessions under the supervision of your Speech-Language Pathologist (S-LP), tailored to the client-specific goals established by them.

My services & resources for seniors ($15-$20/hours)

Services Offered:

1. Transportation: Assistance with getting to doctor appointments, shopping, and other essential outings.
2. Companionship: Engaging activities with friends or family, such as visiting, spending time in nature, walking, or enjoying outdoor activities like gardening, picnics, and fishing.
3. In-Home Care: Support for seniors who wish to remain in their homes but require assistance with daily tasks.
4. Cognitive and Stroke Rehabilitation Activities: Helping individuals relearn skills lost due to stroke or accidents through:
   • Equipment for Recovery: Utilizing tools for hand and fine motor recovery, such as MusicGloves and FitMe.
   • Strength and Dexterity Improvement: Offering exercises and techniques to enhance physical capabilities.
   • Communication Support: Using the Supported Conversation for Adults With Aphasia (SCA™) technique to facilitate communication.
5. Augmentative and Alternative Communication Activities: Assisting individuals in using alternative communication methods.
6. Hobbies for Seniors: Encouraging engagement in hobbies such as electronics (crafts and construction), photography, and playing musical instruments for enjoyment.

Services Offered in English, French, and Romanian

Pricing:

• Individual Sessions:
  • 60 minutes: $20
  • 45 minutes: $15
  • 30 minutes: $10
• Group Sessions:
  • 60 minutes: $15
• Equipment Rental:
  • $50 per month or $20 per week (FitMe and MusicGloves)
• Therapy Materials for Speech and Language Disorders:
  • Available for rental—contact us to negotiate rates that work for both parties.
• Performance-Based Charging:
  • Flexible pricing options are available based on results. Visit us at www.slpa.ca for more details.

Contact Me:
Schedule a free, no-obligation consultation and quote today! For information about my credentials, please see the "About Me" section.

I am located in Kingston, Ontario, and serve individuals and families in Kingston and the surrounding areas. If you prefer online or telephone communication, I am happy to discuss your needs!

What is MusicGlove?
MusicGlove is a hand therapy device that is clinically proven to improve hand function in 2 weeks.
It works by motivating users to perform hundreds of therapeutic hand and finger exercises while playing an engaging musical game.
How do you use it?
To use the device, you simply put the MusicGlove on your hand, plug it into your personal laptop or Flint tablet, and press play.
Then, follow along and make the appropriate pinching movements when each musical note floats down the screen.

What is FitMe? - the home therapy tool designed to help you retrain your brain. 
FitMi was designed specifically to help people with a neurologic injury improve their strength and dexterity.
FitMi contains two wireless pucks and a therapy app that picks exercises for you tailored to your stage of recovery. As you improve, the FitMi exercises and difficulty levels increase to optimize your recovery.
Watch the video to see stroke survivors using FitMi.

List of the language therapy materials for rental.

1. FD-27 Teach the correct meaning & spelling (Homonyms) - age 7 & up
2. FD-28 Teach the verb forms - was/were
3. FD-32 Teach contractions
4. FD-36 Improve grammar skills & vocabulary building - verbs
5. FD-37 Teach the seven basic emotions
6. FD-43 Teach present progressive vs. simple past
7. FD-46 Name common nouns, answer simple questions, increase the length of a sentence
8. FD-48 Changing verbs to nouns
9. FD-56Teach the verb forms - do/does
10. FD-58 Teach basic concepts & follow directions
11. FD-63 Work on Auditory & Visual Memory - Serial Recall 3-6 items
12. FD-65 Teach changing nouns to adjectives
13. FD-71 Teach conjunctions
14. FD-74 Sight Words - 1
15. FD-75 Help students understand Double Negatives
16. FD-78 Words - identify, blend, manipulate patterns & create sentences
17. FD-88B Exp& Vocabulary (Prefixes, Suffixes, Stems)
18. FD-82 Comprehension - L1 & L2 - Main Idea
19. FD-85 Figurative Language
20. FD-86 Sight Words 2 & Sentence Building
21. FD-100 Reading Comprehension / Summarizing skills - L1 & L2 - gr.3-8
22. FD-104B Irregular past tense verbs
23. FD-108 Editing-Proofing (Mechanics)
24. FD-134 Teach Pronouns (Personal, Possessive, & Reflexive)
25. FD-143 Teach the verb forms - saw/seen
26. FD-146 Teach tenses - Irregular verbs (S.Present, Pr.Progressive, Pr.Perfect, S.Past, PastProgressive, Past Perfect, & Simple Future) - gr 2-8
27. FD-151 Teach the meaning & correct usage of Homographs
28. FD-154 Game to improve vocabulary & critical thinking skills
29. FD-155 Teach the different meanings & spelling (Homophones) - L1 & L2 - grade 2 & up
30. FD-161 Recall - Little stories for Auditory Memory Training
31. FD-164 Help students learn how to change nouns into possessive nouns
32. FD-176 Reasoning Game - with awareness of syllabication (blend syllables into words)
33. Sound Stimuli - book 1
34. Sound Stimuli - book 2
35. Sound Stimuli - book 3
36. Sound Stimuli - book 4
37. Sound Stimuli - book 5
38. Sound Stimuli - book 6
39. Sound Stimuli - book 7
40. Sound Stimuli - book 8
41. Big Box - Sentence Building
42. Big Box - Scrambled Sentences
43. Funny-Bunny
44. Pen.-Pile-Up
45. Literacy - H.O.P. - all levels
46. Literacy - H.O.F. - age 4-6
47. Tell-Tale
48. Get The Picture - problem solving and critical thinking
49. 3D-Feel & Find
50. AP-06 - sound "L"
51. AP-15 - sound "P"
52. AP-16 - sound "B"
53. AP-17 - sound "T"
54. AP-18 - sound "D"
55. AP-20 - sound "J"
56. CRD-42 - Teach words that are necessary for students to experience success in the prekindergarten and kindergarten
57. CRD-44 - Teach words that are necessary for students to experience success in the early grades
58. CRD-56 - Teach words that are necessary for students to experience success in the second grade
59. CRD-58 - Teach words that are necessary for students to experience success in the third grade
60. STRP-23 - Inferencing - Cause & Effect, Compare & Contrast, Sequencing Events - Attributes
61. WCA-6002 - Build Sentences
62. WFC-35 - Group Discussions - Social Issues - (abusive behavior, Government, Poverty, Education, Punishment, Environment ... )
63. WFC-134B - Photo Cards Story Starters - for prompting the imagination of students of all ages to tell or write a story
64. WHC-99B -
65. WPC-777
66. WSB-32
67. WVC-888B
68. C-58
69. C-88
70. CC-23
71. CC-47
72. CC-77
73. GB-192B
74. MAG-222
75. MAG-333
76. FAS-777
77. FAS-555
78. GB-346
79. BGO-22
80. BGO-444
81. GB-42
82. LNL-423
83. GB-167
84. GB-192B
85. GB-39
86. DD-12
87. BK-341B
88. SAS-130
89. SAS-99
90. SAS-124
91. SAS-127
92. Pop The Pig
93. BK-357
94. BG-654
95. TPX-21401
96. Smart Sketcher - 2 - for fine motor skills and eye hand coordination
97. Pattern Blocks and Boards 1 - for spatial awareness, color recognition, hand-eye coordination, & problem solving
98. Pattern Blocks Set 2 - for spatial awareness, color recognition, hand-eye coordination, & problem solving
99. See & Spell - 58 pieces - learning to spell
100. Dash Robot - problem solving & 'computer programming'
101. Braille literacy device - coming soon
102. Individual apps made by myself for your child - To Be Discussed
103. FREE - You can use all my materials, apps and services found on www.slpa.ca for your personal, non-commercial use only.
104. For more - please visit me!

If you are an S-LP, it will be a pleasure to work under your supervision*

As an S-LPa or Communication Disorders Assistant (CDA) I can provide support to licensed speech-language pathologists (S-LPs) in the delivery of healthcare services to individuals with communication disorders. I can assist a a licensed S-LP to assist in the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of their patients. I may conduct screenings, administer tests, and collect data on patient progress. In addition, I may provide direct therapy to your clients to improve speech and language skills or I may perform administrative tasks such as scheduling appointments and maintaining patient records.

You can hire me as a CDA to do any of the following activities:

1. Figurative Language therapy activities (Synonyms, Homonyms, Multiple Meanings, Metaphors, Idioms …)
2. Everyday Sounds therapy activities (matching – Sounds to Photos/Sounds …)
3. Pronouns therapy activities (I/Me, He/She, His/Her, Their/They, My/Mine/Me)
4. Verbs therapy activities (Do/Does, Has/Have, Is/Are, Was/Were Irregular Verbs, present progressive, regular past-tense … )
5. Wh inference activities (What?/Where?/Who?/When? …)
6. Asking and answering - game activity (What?, Who? Where? Why? When?)
7. Story comprehension activities (main idea, prediction …)
8. Classifying activities – for age 4 and up
9. Categorization activities - based on FD-79 cards and CLC
10. Activities for children with limited speech or unintelligible speech (CV/CVC/CVCV - bilabial/alveolar/velar/palatal sounds)
11. Auditory training activities
12. Phonological Awareness activities
13. Following Directions activities
14. Sequencing activities
15. Eye-gazing training
16. Sound articulation activities (WPAC with 3000 words and 24 Phonemes)
17. Pragmatics activities (politeness, solving problems, feelings, giving information, requesting, telephone skills, staying on topic ...)
18. Core Curriculum Vocabulary activities (for Pre-K, First Grade, Second Grade, and Third Grade)
19. AMQS - activities
20. Auditory Memory activities
21. Basic concept activities
22. Literacy activities (rhyming - inclusion/exclusion; initial/final sound matching; syllable counting; initial/final sound identification ... ), HOP & LS.
23. Modeling Prologo2Go
    
24. etc.

* Why should you hire me!

I know how to perform my work, I have my own materials for activities, and I will be very interested in your projects. It will be a pleasure to work under your supervision.

The price - $60/h or $30 for 30 minutes.