Communication Development Center

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We are a small, non-profit clinic on the west side of Madison, WI specializing in communication services for children who benefit from play and physical activity to support their interactions. Our clinic is set up to provide fun, physical challenge, and engagement. We "follow a child's lead" in play, using parent recommendations for activities, toys, and topics. We work hand in hand with parents, observe children closely, and attempt to provide the best support we can to allow children to meet their full potential. We are three Speech and Language Pathologists and three Speech and Language Assistants with over forty-five years combined experience working with individuals aged 18 months - 21 years. We have experience with the full range of communication challenges, but specialize in services to children with labels on the autism spectrum. By this, we mean that we love working with children with visual strengths, visual-spatial learning styles, sensory-motor challenges, dyspraxia, and "hard to read" ways of showing preference, attempting communication, and engaging. We have attended or conducted specialized workshops in sensory integration, motor planning, sensory defensiveness, oral-motor development, verbal dyspraxia, learning disabilities, giftedness, hyperlexia, listening therapy, augmentative communication (including PECS), PROMPT, and others. We see each of these approaches as valuable to certain children at certain times, and draw from them when "the time is right...

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