Answering FAQs: What to expect from sessions and how often do they take place

As the school year approaches, we wanted to answer some FAQ about in-home or in-school speech & language therapy with HAEPI SLP Therapy Services.

It can be nerve-racking inviting someone new into your home to provide SLP services. However, there are TONS of benefits to home-based or community-based therapy, such as: 

• it saves you time from driving to and from appointments
• there's no need to find someone to watch other children
• it means working with the child in their immediate setting, which encourages better carry-over to everyday life
• you'll learn how you can use your own toys/materials in between sessions
• we meet children where they are at, in the environments they are most comfortable in
• it allows parents/siblings/other caregivers to be present to learn strategies

I've had many sessions where teachers, SSPs (school aids), respite workers, siblings, or grandparents are present, and this allows for them to see how therapy happens first-hand!

Plus, who doesn't love a summer session at the playground or while getting ice cream? (Yes, we can do that!)

by Halle Demchuk, SLP

Paediatric SLP | GLP-Trained Clinician | Owner of HAEPI SLP