Speech and
Language services
At Words for Kids, we provide services designed to serve your unique child helping with speech sound production, fluency, receptive, expressive and social language skills to children of all ability levels.
Receptive Language Disorders/Delays
Receptive language disorders affect a child’s ability to understand language. Difficulties might include following directions, answering questions appropriately, understanding stories and making inferences.
Expressive Language Disorders/Delays
Expressive language disorders affect a child’s ability to use words, sentences and gestures to convey a message. Difficulties might include expressing wants and needs, using appropriate sentence structure, retelling information and giving step by step directions.
Speech Sound Disorders
Speech sound disorders affect a child’s ability to produce age appropriate sounds clearly which may affect a child’s intelligibility.
Early Intervention
Early intervention services are for children from birth to age three. Therapy focuses on cognitive, communication and social-emotional skills.
Our specialties
- Articulations
- Autism
- Early Intervention
- Play Skills
- Development Delays
- Pragmatic Language
- Childhood Apraxia of Speech
- Phonological disorders
- Receptive and Expressive Language Disorders
- Fluency
Get started today!
Getting started with Words for Kids is easy!
We are accepting new clients for in-person therapy in select areas of Miami-Dade County and for online therapy for families throughout Florida.
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First Steps:
Contact us for a free phone consultation where we will address your concerns and answer your questions. Based on the needs of your child the therapist will explain the options for evaluation.
2.
Evaluation:
The next step is to perform a comprehensive speech-language evaluation in order to identify specific communication difficulties your child may be presenting. An individualized treatment plan will be developed that takes into consideration your family and child’s needs.
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Start seeing results:
Once therapy begins, your child will engage in weekly sessions and you will be provided with tools and strategies to carry over what is being targeted in therapy. Data will be collected during each session. Once the goals have been met, the child will be discharged from therapy.
FAQs
Below you can find our Frequently Asked Questions.
If you can’t find the answer you are looking for, you can always call, text, or email Words for Kids at hello@wordsforkidsmiami.com or 786 583 5380 to discuss your concerns and determine if an evaluation and/or therapy is needed.
Words for Kids is an out of network provider. A superbill may be provided as a statement of your services. Provision of superbill does not guarantee reimbursement of services. Please contact your insurance provider prior to your scheduled service. Ask your therapist for a list of questions to ask your insurance company.
Yes, Words for Kids accepts The Family Empowerment Scholarship for Students with Unique Abilities (FES-UA; formerly the Gardiner Scholarship). Depending on your child’s diagnosis/needs funding may be given to use on therapy services.
Yes, Words for Kids requires a comprehensive evaluation before beginning therapy services. Evaluations provide important baseline data on your child. It provides information that assists in creating a plan of care and individualized goals based on your child’s communication needs. An evaluation completed at another facility may be accepted if it was conducted less than 6 months and all areas of concern were evaluated.
As per our cancellation policy, we ask for a 24-hour notice. If last-minute cancellations happen repeatedly we will work with you to determine if another therapy time or teletherapy is a better fit. Cancellations made without at least 24-hour notice, or no-shows will be charged a full session fee.
We require an evaluation unless your child has had an evaluation in the past 6 months. We will review your previous evaluation and will let you know if the report contains enough information for us to begin services. If we determine the report contains enough information we will accept it and schedule a re-evaluation within 6 months of the last report. If the report is older than 6 months from the current date a new evaluation will be performed.