Joleen R. Fernald Pediatric Therapy Services

11/14/2025

Exciting times!

Reconnections DIR Center

11/11/2025

🇺🇸 Honoring Our Veterans Today & Always 🇺🇸

Today on , I’m thinking about the incredible men in my own family who chose to serve our country — and I just want to say thank you. ❤️🤍💙

✨ My father-in-law, Ken — United States Air Force
✨ My dad — United States Army
✨ Uncle Paul — United States Army
✨ Uncle Stanley — United States Army
✨ Uncle John — United States Army
✨ My brother Kevin — United States Army
✨ My brother Jason — United States Marine Corps

Your courage, discipline, sacrifices, and the time you gave to protect our freedoms are not forgotten. 🇺🇸

Thank you for serving.
Thank you for showing up — then and now.

We honor you today — and every day. 💙

11/08/2025

🎉✨ HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to VICTORIA!! ✨🎉

I am SO proud to celebrate that Victoria has officially completed her Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC) from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)! 🙌🧠💬

Victoria joined my practice in June of 2024 as a Clinical Fellow and has been an integral part of so many children’s success — supporting articulation, expressive & receptive language, AAC, fluency, pragmatics, selective mutism, and more. 🌱

She pours her heart into this work and shows up with compassion, presence, and thoughtful connection each day — and I am grateful for the energy, curiosity, and joy she brings to our families.

▪️ Native to Tampa Bay
▪️ BA – USF 🐂
▪️ MS – Nova Southeastern University 🦈
▪️ DIRFloortime® Certified ✔️

I cannot wait to see where your career continues to grow from here — and I am honored to be part of your professional journey. 🌟

CONGRATULATIONS Victoria, CCC-SLP!! 👏👏👏

10/31/2025

So excited to finally announce this! My practice will continue to specialize in Selective Mutism while the DIR Center will support lots of profiles.

EXCITING NEWS!!

REConnections Education Center is proud to announce the launch of our new therapeutic center: REConnections DIR Center.

REConnections DIR Center is a state-of-the-art therapy practice built fully around the DIR® (Developmental, Individual-differences, Relationship-based) philosophy. We are committed to providing relationship-centered, child-led, developmentally respectful services to our community.

To begin, we will be offering:
• Occupational Therapy
• Speech Therapy
• Music Therapy
• Tutoring Services designed especially for homeschool learners but available to all

All services will be delivered through a DIR lens.

While many of our experienced therapists and a select group of educators from our established and successful education center will begin by offering after-school sessions, we are actively growing and hiring now.

We are currently seeking:
• Certified Educator
• Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP)
• Occupational Therapist (OT)

We are looking for motivated professionals who believe in developmental, play-based, relationship-driven work and who are excited to grow with a center from the ground up. Daytime availability is preferred as we begin filling daytime hours.

Our website and page will be live soon — stay tuned.

We are thrilled to continue expanding access to high-quality DIR/Floortime-based intervention in our community through both our accredited education center and now our therapy center.

If you’re interested in applying, please email info@recdircenter.com with your resume and a brief introduction about yourself.

10/28/2025

Love REConnections and partnering with the Bucalo Family Foundation!

07/14/2025

Let’s Talk AAC & Language Exposure! 💬
By 18 months old, most babies have heard around 4,380 hours of spoken language—and we don’t expect them to be fluent speakers yet. 👶

Now imagine this:
If an AAC user only experiences symbol modeling twice a week for 20–30 minutes, it would take them 84 YEARS to get the same exposure to language as that 18-month-old.

📣 Consistency is key. Just like with spoken language, AAC must be modeled frequently throughout the day—in play, routines, mealtimes, and beyond.
Let’s make every moment a language opportunity for our AAC learners. Every child deserves to be heard. ❤️