The Kids' Communication Center

The Kids' Communication Center The Kids' Communication Center is a speech-language therapy practice located in Washington DC. We con

The Kids' Communication Center is a pediatric speech-language therapy practice located in the Washington DC Metropolitan area. We provide comprehensive speech-language evaluations and treatment, typically to children between the ages of two and eight, and address a wide range of communication issues. Individual and group therapy sessions are available; school visits may also be available upon request. All of our talented speech-language pathologists have Master's degrees, are licensed in the District of Columbia and are certified by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). Most have received training in both PROMPT and oral-motor therapy techniques. The Kids' Communication Center therapists believe that it is important to collaborate with everyone who is involved in a child's care. This includes parents, nannies/caretakers, teachers, doctors, and other professionals. In fact, The Kids' Communication Center shares office space with a separate pediatric occupational therapy practice called Leaps and Bounds. In order to minimize transitions for the child and to convenience the parents, our two businesses will try to provide back-to-back speech and occupational therapy sessions when requested.

Why not give your child's writing and communication skills a boost this summer-- all from home via teletherapy?We are ex...
05/30/2020

Why not give your child's writing and communication skills a boost this summer-- all from home via teletherapy?
We are excited to offer a variety of fun, enriching summer speech-language groups. Enrollment has begun for the June 15th session!
Our writing groups will target written expression skills with rising first through fourth grade students (age matched with peers).
Based on age, activities may include writing and revising fiction stories, drafting nonfiction paragraphs, and writing letters. We will practice following steps in the writing process and including key story elements such as characters, setting, problem, solution, and events. Writing topics will be tailored to students' current level and interests.
Our talented, enthusiastic speech-language pathologists will make sure that your child has fun while learning!
Contact us today via our website (link in bio) or E-mail Laura at dlglaser@msn.com to learn more!

What prize would you choose from our overflowing prize box? Glitter slime and sticky hands seem to be our kiddos' top pi...
03/02/2020

What prize would you choose from our overflowing prize box? Glitter slime and sticky hands seem to be our kiddos' top picks! We have even been known to take special requests from clients before re-ordering 😃

Why do we keep so many boxes of toys up high and out of reach? Not only does this keep our office organized, but it prov...
03/02/2020

Why do we keep so many boxes of toys up high and out of reach? Not only does this keep our office organized, but it provides a great opportunity for our clients (especially the little ones) to use words to make requests and protests!
Setting up scenarios where the child needs to ask for assistance is a great way to build communication skills, especially with kiddos between 12 months to 3 years! SLPs call these "communication tempations."
In addition to keeping desired objects in sight but out of reach, try these ideas:
🌟 Hand your child a container with a tight lid on it, requiring them to request that you open it
🌟 Hold a bubble wand up to your mouth but wait before blowing
🌟 Activate a wind-up toy, then wait after it stops before winding it up again or simply hand it to your child (if they'll need your help to activate it again)
🌟 Hold a ball or truck at the top of a ramp (or rev up a pull-back car) but don't release it
🌟 Turn on a toy with lights or sounds, then turn it off while keeping your hand over the button
In each of the above scenarios, the key is to WAIT and see if your child uses words to communicate what they need. You can also ask questions such as, "What should I do?" or "What do you want?" and if needed, model the words that your child can use to ask for what they want (ex: "Open bubbles, mama!")
If your child is younger or not yet using single words, you can use the scenarios above but say "Ready, set, ______" and perform the desired action after the child makes a sound or says, "Go!"
If you have concerns about your child's use of words or the number of words they know, feel free to contact us-- we'd be happy to chat with you about our services and whether we'd recommend a speech-language evaluation!

Do you have concerns about your child's communication or social development?The Kids' Communication Center is a pediatri...
03/02/2020

Do you have concerns about your child's communication or social development?
The Kids' Communication Center is a pediatric speech-language therapy practice located in the Tenleytown area of NW Washington DC. We provide comprehensive speech-language evaluations and treatment, typically to children between the ages of 18 months to 12 years and address a wide range of communication issues.
Individual and group therapy sessions (including social skills groups) are available. School visits may also be available upon request!
Visit our website or connect with us to learn more!
www.thekidscommunicationcenter.com

At KCC, we believe that children learn best through play-- that's why our office is equipped with over 200 toys and game...
03/02/2020

At KCC, we believe that children learn best through play-- that's why our office is equipped with over 200 toys and games as well as two sensorimotor gyms that include a ball pit, swings, zip line, rock wall, and trampoline! As you can imagine, many children leave our office without even realizing they have been working! Contact us if you have any concerns about your child's speech-language or social development.

Believe it or not, this huge stash of games in our game closet is less than a quarter of our office collection 😁. It's n...
03/02/2020

Believe it or not, this huge stash of games in our game closet is less than a quarter of our office collection 😁. It's no wonder kids love coming here to play!!

Even Elmo likes hanging out in our ball pit! 🤹‍♂️Many of the speech therapy sessions at KCC take place in a sensorimotor...
03/02/2020

Even Elmo likes hanging out in our ball pit! 🤹‍♂️
Many of the speech therapy sessions at KCC take place in a sensorimotor gym, similar to the treatment rooms used by occupational therapists, so that kids can move and play while learning!
In addition to a ball pit, we have several interchangeable swings and a trampoline (swipe to see). Our second large gym, which is not pictured includes a zip line and rock wall!
Some children who exhibit speech-langugage difficulties also benefit from occupational therapy to improve skills like fine motor skills (cutting, pencil grip, handwriting), balance/coordination, hand-eye coordination, and sensory integration (processing and tolerating information from the senses like sight, touch, and sound).
We share office space with an occupational therapy practice, making it easier for kids who need both services, and we love collaborating with the OTs on treatment goals! We also do our best to accommodate back-to-back OT and speech sessions whenever possible!

We are always adding to our office wind-up toy collection because wind-up toys can be used to target SO many speech-lang...
03/02/2020

We are always adding to our office wind-up toy collection because wind-up toys can be used to target SO many speech-language skills (and our little ones love them!)
Did you know that speech-language pathologists work with children as young as 18 months (or younger!) who are late to talk, combine words to form phrases, or produce early speech sounds like /b/, /p/, /m/, /n/, /t/, /d/, /w/, and /h/?
We often use wind-up toys in sessions with late-talkers to build joint attention skills, where the child and therapist are both focused on the same activity, which maximizes learning and builds social connections. We also use them to have children work on making basic requests (ex: saying "Go!" or vocalizing in order to activate the toy), to encourage single words or word combinations (ex: "turn on," "push toy," "put in," "take out," "more toys," "bug walk," "bye-bye bunny"), and to improve speech-sound production (i.e., by having the child imitate a variety of sounds such as animal noises and beginning sounds of words during play!)
Our speech therapy sessions are always play-based and child-directed!

Most people know that speech-language pathologists (or SLPs) work on pronouncing speech sounds, and while we're great at...
03/02/2020

Most people know that speech-language pathologists (or SLPs) work on pronouncing speech sounds, and while we're great at that 😁, we do so much more than just correcting R sounds and lisps!
Did you know that SLPs are trained to improve ALL aspects of communication including comprehension of spoken sentences and the ability to follow directions?
At our office, while playing games and using fun sensorimotor equipment (check out our other posts for pictures), children work on following directions like:
🌟 One-step directions ("Touch your nose")
🌟 Two-step directions ("Stand up and clap," "First jump and then touch your head")
🌟 Directions with conditions ("If I clap, you sit down," "Don't touch your head unless I dance")
🌟 Three-step directions ("Spin, clap, and touch your head")
🌟 Before and after directions ("Before you touch your ears, jump," "Touch your belly after you stand up")
🌟 Directions that include quantities (all, some, one, none, many), locations (in, on, under, in front, behind, above/below, between), negation (not) and adjectives (full/empty, soft/hard) among many other concepts!
Feel free to reach out for more information if you have any concerns about your child's ability to follow directions or understand/remember spoken information at home or in the classroom!

We love reading picture books during speech therapy sessions, especially the Froggy books by Jonathan London, which is w...
03/02/2020

We love reading picture books during speech therapy sessions, especially the Froggy books by Jonathan London, which is why we have such a large collection!
While reading with children, we practice communication skills like expanding vocabulary of nouns, verbs, and adjectives, describing pictures, answering basic wh questions about the pictures or story (ex: who, what, where), answering critical-thinking questions (ex: why, how can you tell, what might happen next), completing categorization tasks related to the story (ex: naming types of spring clothing, naming foods you eat at a picnic), and retelling the story in their own words!
We have shelves upon shelves of children's books organized by topic so that we can easily select books related to the current season, an upcoming holiday like St. Patrick's Day 🍀, or a certain skill area like social skills!

Giggling and wiggling our way into the first week of March! What could be more fun than a dancing caterpillar? 🐛
03/02/2020

Giggling and wiggling our way into the first week of March! What could be more fun than a dancing caterpillar? 🐛

Social groups are now forming at The Kids' Communication Center in NW DC! Groups are run by our talented, enthusiastic s...
09/16/2019

Social groups are now forming at The Kids' Communication Center in NW DC! Groups are run by our talented, enthusiastic speech-language pathologists and focus on social/language skills such as:

⏹Engaging in back-and-forth conversation
⏹Maintaining the topic of conversation
⏹Reading social cues such as body language and facial expressions
⏹Using "whole body" listening
⏹Engaging in pretend play
⏹Participating in turn-taking games
⏹Handling challenging social situations and resolving conflicts with peers

Group activities are also tailored to the individual child's needs. Visit our website or contact us for more information!
www.thekidscommunicationcenter.com

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4906 Wisconsin Avenue NW
Washington D.C., DC
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