Saturday
February 4th, 2012

our services

The Swain Center provides a full range of speech and language services to our clients. We specialize in children from ages 12 months to 18 years of age, and also have staff members who are specially trained in adult communication disorders. Our services are offered year round.

Our scope of service includes:

Standard Services

• Complete speech, language, and socialization evaluations
• Auditory processing disorder assessments
• Social-pragmatic training
• Community in-services and training
• Professional consultation
• IEP consultation
• Continuing Education Training
• Bilingual children's services available
• Individual therapy for:
  • Speech-language problems
  • Autism/ASD
  • Learning Difficulties
  • Auditory Processing
  • Aphasia
  • Apraxia
  
  
  

  Specialized Services

• Oromyofunctional therapy
• Prompt method for treating motor speech disorders [more information]
• The Tomatis Method of auditory stimulation [more information]
• Interactive Metronome [more information]
• Earobics [more information]
• Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes®
• Accent Modification
• Computerized programs for reading and spelling
• Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS)
• Floor Time
• Master the Code
• Fast ForWord
• Social Skills Program
• Math Clinic & Homework Club
• Lee Silverman Voice Therapy [www.lsvt.org]

Telepractice
The Swain Center is now offering our services through telepractice. Telepractice therapy is traditional speech-language therapy with a twist. It allows speech-language pathologists to work with clients while taking advantage of internet technology. This means that clients* will be able to receive speech and language services in the ease and comfort of their own homes, and in which neither the client nor the therapists will need to travel long distances. The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s (ASHA) position is that "telepractice is an appropriate model of service delivery for the professions of speech-language pathology. Telepractice may be used to overcome barriers of access to services caused by distance, unavailability of specialists and/or subspecialists, and impaired mobility." For more information from ASHA regarding telepractice, please visit www.asha.org/practice/telepractice/ For more information about our telepractice therapy at The Swain Center, please contact Melissa Wiley at (707)575-1468 or via email Melissa@theswaincenter.com.
*Please note that this therapy model may not be appropriate for all clients

We will generally decline to participate in legal proceedings or intermarital/custodial squabbles. Our office will not act as a mediator between custodial parents, relay information about a child's sessions to a non-custodial parent, or mediate scheduling or payment plans between ex-spouses.

* The Swain Center is NOT Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes nor is it affiliated with, certified, endorsed, licensed, monitored or sponsored by Lindamood-Bell, Nanci Bell, Phyllis Lindamood or Pat Lindamood. Lindamood-Bell - an international organization creating and implementing unique instructional methods and programs for quality intervention to advance language and literacy skills in no way endorses or monitors the services provided by The Swain Center.