Above and Beyond Speech Therapy LLC

04/06/2026

It's that time of year when we start thinking about summer only services. 😎

If this is something that you may be interested in for your child that already has an IFSP/IEP, please fill out the form below.

With summer-only services, we forgo a new evaluation and just use current school-age or preschool-age ER/IEP paperwork to create a Diagnosis and Treatment Plan to get started pretty quickly. It's private pay only and there is no option to submit to insurance for reimbursement since we wouldn't be do...

04/03/2026

April is all about Autism

🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜♾️♾️♾️♾️♾️

04/02/2026

Easter activities have been in full swing here at Above and Beyond! Making bunny masks and reading books and egg hunts and more!

03/30/2026

This month marks 5 years since I have opened this business. I am very proud of that 💞

Five years of helping kids.
Five years of helping families.

How *I* want to help them. NOT how a school limits me. NOT how a hospital setting limits me. My terms. My goals. Connecting with families and kids.

I started out working from a small room in a church and then moved to a small office. I now have a larger suite so we can help more kids, always with the goal in mind to help as many kids as possible while also paying my SLPs well and keeping the business open.

Five years of helping kids:

🌟 At my clinic
🌟 At two online PA charter schools
🌟 With the help of five passionate SLPs

I am the business manager and social media poster for my business. I also help my SLPs as needed. I take all referrals and phone calls. And I still do about 25 direct sessions with kids a week. As a good friend said, I’m a wife and a mom and a friend and a person, too. 😉

Owning a small, women owned business has not been easy. Not by any means. But I don’t want to just run my business. I want to help kids directly. I always will 💞

A big thank you to the current, past, and future families. 💗I wouldn’t be here without your trust that I am different, we are different, at what we do. So grateful for you!

To the next 5/10/15 years! 🎉🎉🎉

03/26/2026

If you know me, you know that I love getting a good deal. We have a very popular children’s consignment sale happening right now and I went yesterday. I always find such good things - but this book is a real keeper. It was bundled with three others by the same author who wrote about her daughter. They’re lovely stories about love and acceptance of differences. It’s worth the read for all kids 💞

03/18/2026

I remembered to grab my phone to snap some pictures of some St Patrick’s Day activities that we did this week! Rainbows and Pete the Cat and bingo and prepositions and a leprechaun game and more! ☘️

03/16/2026

It’s St. Patrick’s Day week! We are busy with our newest theme ☘️ making puppets with speech sounds in our sessions that the kids can take home to practice.

03/13/2026

Another activity that you can do not at a table - fishing 🎣! For this client, we did first start by reading a Pete the Cat book about camping. We listed out final T sounds (one of her targets) that we heard when reading the book. Adding the visual of where the T is in the word really can help kids. Then she retold the story using her good T sound - and then we went fishing afterwards. F is another target but at the conversation level with this client so this was the perfect activity to do with her!

Targeted activities + fun = the most learning

03/11/2026

Let’s rescue some dinosaurs! 🦕

Here is a great activity that you can do at home for fun - and especially if you have a gestalt language processor (GLP) since you can make so many comments and exclamations - “lets do another one!” “This is fun!” “What will we find next?” “Look at that!”

I put the mini dinos in “eggs” made from a baking soda and water paste. Put some of the paste in your palm, put down the dino, and put more of the paste around it into the shape of an egg. Let dry overnight or freeze a few hours. Then use vinegar in a spray bottle to rescue them. I always put down a wipe off tablecloth to save my floor from being drenched and have lots of tools out to use. Let me know if you try it at home and how it goes!

03/09/2026

One more day to talk about frozen things and I’m moving on to spring! 🤣 ☀️ I do love my arctic animals unit though. Another good one to use with my language and GLP clients. We read a book, act out some animal actions or sounds, and free the animals from the frozen ice. Then the animals go in the “water” or on the “ice.” 🐻 🧊

03/06/2026

I am part of the Centre County Local Interagency Coordinating Council (LICC) and we have decided to do an event at Little Lions Den for those kids receiving early intervention (0-5). First come, first serve, so sign up soon!

Please add your name and number of children attending. You may be added to the waitlist if all 30 slots are full.

03/05/2026

Not gonna lie - I’m kinda done talking about the snow ❄️ 🤣🙃I’m ready for warm weather. I do love Sneezy the Snowman though. I read the story and have pictures for the kids to rearrange when they are retelling the story. This hands on approach can really help kids - and they think it’s fun. Then a story book to color for homework with their speech sounds circled for parents to really focus on those sounds at home.