Fostering communication, coordination, and confidence
Building confidence and clear communication in every child - Our expert speech, language, and occupational therapy services are tailored to support your child's unique journey.
Transforming Lives Through Innovative Speech, Language, Occupational, & Music Therapy
At Little Me Therapies, we take pride in delivering expert pediatric speech, language, and occupational therapy services tailored to the unique needs of children and families on the greater north shore area. Our family-centered approach revolves around a holistic, multi-sensory methodology, addressing crucial aspects of a child's development, including sensory, motor, cognitive, academic, language, and social domains.
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Engaging Therapy Environment - Services provided in a warm, fun, and child-friendly setting.
Comprehensive Support - Focus on sensory, motor, cognitive, academic, language, and social domains.
Empowering Education for Families - Family and caregiver education to improve carryover and generalization of learned skills.
Personalized Therapy Plans for Children’s Speech, Language, Motor, Self Care, and Sensory Needs
Our commitment to your child's growth begins with an assessment of your child’s speech, language and occupational therapy needs. From these insights a comprehensive therapy plan is formulated, ensuring a tailored approach to meet the child's specific objectives. Engaging and evidence-based, our play based therapy sessions are designed to cover all areas of concern.
Assessment
Our experienced therapists conduct thorough assessments, including standardized testing, developmental history, and clinical observations. These tailored evaluations, conducted over one or multiple sessions, identify areas of difficulty. Together, we will review results and provide a comprehensive written report with goals, objectives, and supplemental therapy strategies.
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Therapy Plan
Based on the assessment results, we create a personalized therapy plan that addresses your child's specific speech, language, and occupational needs. This plan outlines the goals, strategies, and activities that will be used during therapy sessions.
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Therapy Sessions
Therapy is play based and designed to engage the child so they become an active participant in the therapy process. Your child is made to feel at ease so they begin working on areas of concern in a stress free, comfortable environment.
Therapy objectives are targeted as we engage in fun activities such as sensory activities, motor movement, art projects, music and games. Activities are kept simple and motivating so your child can focus their resources on improving their speech, language, and occupational skills. Functional ideas are also provided so you can practice at home to improve generalization of learned skills.
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Progress Monitoring
Throughout the therapy process, we continuously monitor your child's progress and make adjustments to their therapy plan as needed. We believe in open communication with families and providing regular updates on your child's achievements and areas for improvement.
Your child may be also be receiving other therapies from school services and/or private therapists. Ongoing communication will be implemented between all members of your child’s team via communication notebooks, emails, phone calls and meetings to ensure coordination of care.
Testimonials
Sounding Out Success: What Caregivers Have to Say
Expert Speech, Language, and Occupational Therapy Services for Children
Empowering children through personalized assessments and therapy for speech and occupational challenges.
Meet Our Team
Our qualified therapists have a passion for helping children.
Ann Adams, MA CCC
Ann has been a speech-language pathologist for over 28 years. She has experience working with children with a variety of speech and language disorders including motor speech (ie: apraxia and dysarthria), articulation, phonological, receptive and expressive language as well as verbal and non-verbal learning disabilities and swallowing difficulties. Ann understands the importance of assessing and treating the whole child including speech, language, motor, play, cognitive and social communication domains. She believes in play-based intervention strategies that engage and motivate the child and the value of ensuring the families are active members of the therapy process.
As a PROMPT (Prompts for Restructuring Oral Motor Phonetic Targets) certified therapist, she specializes in helping children with Apraxia of Speech as well as other motor based speech disorders. The PROMPT therapy technique is a dynamic approach that uses gentle tactile cues, in combination with visual and verbal cues, to guide the speech musculature in the production of functional sounds, words and phrases. These prompts are designed to help the child get a feel for the movement, the muscle movement required and how to combine movements to form words and phrases. The PROMPT method is a functional, interactive, language based approach that is highly respected and sought after worldwide.
Lori Vickery, OTL
Lori is an Occupational Therapist with 27 years of experience working with individuals aged 1 month to 22 years. She specializes in Early Intervention for the birth to three population and has worked in public school settings, covering preschool to post-graduate programs. Lori's goal is to enhance children's skills in their home, school, and community through therapeutic activities and resources. She employs a patient, playful, and creative approach to address fine and gross motor delays, sensory processing challenges, feeding difficulties, visual perceptual dysfunction, learning disabilities, self-care issues, and executive functioning challenges.
As an OT, Lori has extensive experience and knowledge in the area of feeding and eating with children who are tube fed, have oral-facial structural differences, disregulated sensory acceptance of food, delays with muscle coordination & strength, slow growth and/or have nutritional challenges. She works directly with caregivers, providing tailored strategies and resources that match a child's eating level and encourage skill development. Lori values collaboration with other specialists to ensure seamless carryover for families. Finding great satisfaction in helping children and their families navigate developmental challenges for improved day-to-day living.
Susan Levine, MT-BC
Susan is a board-certified music therapist with over 20 years of experience working with young children and their families. She holds a master’s degree from Lesley University and is a Massachusetts Certified Early Intervention Specialist. She currently works in Early Intervention as a music therapist as well as providing private therapy services to families in the North Shore area.
Her therapeutic approach integrates singing, instruments, movement, and social activities to address developmental needs including communication, receptive language, motor and social skills as well as sensory regulation and self-expression. Susan believes in the power of music as a multi-sensory, whole-brain, whole-body approach to therapy which fosters growth in a joyful and meaningful way. Susan is an award-winning singer-songwriter who performs both as a solo artist andwith her duo, The Lied To’s. Susan, along with her two sons, cat and dog are long time residents of Newburyport.
Rebecca Adams, MA, SLP-CF
Rebecca is a recent graduate from BSU with her MA degree in communicative disorders. As a graduate student she worked in a variety of environments including public school, private clinic and hospital settings. She is currently doing her clinical fellowship year as a speech-language pathologist with Early Intervention. In 9 months she will officially be a licensed speech language pathologist! Rebecca is an excellent therapist and we are excited to have her on our team.
We're hiring!
Little Me Therapies is hiring qualified speech-language pathologists and occupational therapists.
FAQs
Find answers to frequently asked questions.
Speech-language therapy is a specialized service that helps children improve their communication skills, including speech, language, and social communication. Our experienced therapists work closely with children to develop individualized treatment plans and provide targeted interventions to address their specific needs.
Speech-language therapy can benefit children who have difficulty with speech sounds, language development, stuttering, voice disorders, and social communication. Our therapists are trained to assess and treat a wide range of communication disorders to help children reach their full potential.
Occupational Therapy is a healthcare service that provides therapeutic strategies and education to assist individuals that have challenges participating in daily activities. The goal of therapy is to increase a person’s independence in activities of daily living. In pediatrics, these a generally include physical, mental and emotional skills for development. Therapy can be provided directly to individuals or with caregivers of individuals.
This therapy is particularly beneficial for those encountering difficulties with daily activities, school tasks, and social interactions. If your child struggles with tasks like writing, dressing, or participating in play, occupational therapy can play a key role in fostering their independence and success.
We are proud to offer music therapy classes. Music therapy utilizes a variety of musical experiences (singing, playing instruments, movement and listening) to foster the development on non-musical goals such as communication, social emotional, sensory, motor and cognitive skills.
PROMPT stands for Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets. PROMPT therapy s a successful, evidence-based treatment method for children with motor speech disorders such as apraxia, dysarthria or phonological disorders.
The PROMPT method focuses on the physical aspects of speech production (movements of the jaw, lips and tongue) using tactile cues to teach the correct movements for producing speech sounds.
PROMPT is a multidimensional and holistic approach that combines physical and cognitive techniques to improve speech and language skills. Children learn to use their new speech movements in context building vocabulary, grammar, sentence structure, as well as conversation and social skills.
The duration of therapy sessions depends on the individual needs of the child. Typically, sessions range from 30 to 45 minutes. Our therapists will work with you to determine the appropriate session length to ensure optimal progress and engagement.
The frequency of therapy sessions varies based on the child's needs and goals. In general, sessions are scheduled once or twice a week. Our therapists will collaborate with you to create a schedule that fits your child's availability and maximizes the effectiveness of the therapy.
During a therapy session, our therapists will engage your child in various activities and exercises to target specific goals. They will provide guidance, feedback, and support throughout the session to facilitate learning and progress. Parent involvement and home practice are also essential components of the therapy process.
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Get in Touch
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The clinic is conveniently located in Newbury right over the bridge from Newburyport. The clinic is handicap accessible and there is free parking in the front of the building for your convenience. We offer a comfortable waiting area where you and your family are welcome to relax.