Speech Therapy

Are you looking for a speech therapist in Indianapolis and the surrounding areas? Turn to K1ds Count Therapy. Our services are individualized to meet the unique needs of every child. Whether the therapy need is a single service or multiple, the collaboration between disciplines cultivates a comprehensive learning experience for every client! Our therapists are trained to work with and provide services to clients of all diagnoses from birth through their 21st birthday.

What is Speech Therapy?

Our team of speech therapists work to prevent, assess, diagnose, and treat speech, language, social communication, cognitive communication and feeding/swallowing disorders in children. We have an excellent team of speech therapists at Kids Count Therapy with a multitude of experience. You will see our therapists on the floor engaging in play based therapy sessions with your child. Parents are invited to attend our 30 or 60 minute sessions, but are not required to stay. Our therapists enjoy providing carryover education and activities to increase generalization into the home setting. We offer the speech therapy Indianapolis families depend on.

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Services Offered by Our
Speech Therapy Team

Groups

Social Group

Our Speech Therapists design and implement social pragmatic skills therapy using multiple Social Thinking curriculums as well as role play and game activities across ABA and outpatient clients. Therapists facilitate many social groups within the ABA setting as well as a weekly teen group.

Our speech therapists and occupational therapists collaborate together to provide a sensory based approach to exploring food. The goal of the SOS approach is to increase the child’s comfort level with particular foods by interacting and learning about the taste, texture, smell and consistency of food. It allows the child to interact with food in a playful, exploratory way.

Our ABA clients participate in these groups weekly depending on client placement. These groups simulate a classroom like environment circle time and focus on language enrichment, functional skills and spontaneous use of language with peers.


LAMP Group

LAMP group is a weekly group provided to our ABA clients to promote the functional use of their speech generating devices by focusing on and generalizing the use of core vocabulary across multiple provided activities.

Language and Learning Group

Language and Learning Group:
Language and Learning Group is a language enriched group led by our speech therapists in the ABA setting. Therapists teach thematic lessons with a story and coordinating activities to increase speech sounds, literacy skills, basic concepts and cognitive language skills.

Groups

Feeding/Swallowing

At KCT, we offer comprehensive and specialized care for children with a wide range of feeding and swallowing disorders. We have a team of speech therapists with many years of combined experience in the treatment of feeding/swallowing disorders. These disorders are diverse in nature so referrals to our speech therapy team may include children who have difficulty maintaining adequate nutrition, difficulty with oral motor skill acquisition (e.g. with breastfeeding, bottle feeding, or transitioning to solids), children who are at risk or have a history of aspiration, children transitioning from a feeding tube to oral nutrition, children with sensory disorders that impact their ability to tolerate a range of food textures/temperatures, and children who have been deemed picky eaters.
Feeding/Swallowing

AAC Evaluation

Our speech therapists are trained to provide your child a comprehensive Alternative and Augmentative Communication evaluation. During this process, our therapists will work with you and your child to trial different devices and vocabulary systems in order to best meet the needs of the child! Once the appropriate device and vocabulary system have been selected, the speech therapist will work to complete the paperwork and evaluation to secure funding from your insurance company. This can be a long process, but having the opportunity to provide your child with a voice is our ultimate goal!
AAC Evaluation

Dyslexia

At KCT, we are able to provide a dyslexia screening with an Orton Gillingham trained therapist. These screenings can identify indicators of dyslexia (deficits in phonemic awareness, reading, and spelling) and determine if a client would benefit from Orton Gillingham tutoring services. The screening does NOT provide formal diagnostic testing to rule out or diagnose dyslexia. We are able to provide Orton Gillingham tutoring in our outpatient setting!
Dyslexia

Articulation

Articulation therapy involves correcting speech sounds produced in error. Our therapists can assess your child’s speech sound production to identify appropriateness of sound acquisition and ensure the meeting of milestones.
Articulation

Childhood Apraxia of Speech

Per ASHA, Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) is a neurological speech sound disorder that impacts precision and consistency of movements used for making speech sounds. CAS may present comorbidly with many other diagnoses and is often seen in children with autism. Our therapists can assess your child using the Kaufman Speech Praxis Test to identify potential breakdowns and develop a treatment plan to increase oral motor plans necessary for sound production.
Childhood Apraxia of Speech

Expressive/Receptive Language

Our speech therapists also provide services to increase language skills. This may include receptive language, the ability to listen and understand other communicators, and expressive language, the ability to use language to express our wants and needs. Language therapy focuses on increasing vocabulary and the ability to put words together to form sentences so that clients are able to express their personal and medical wants and needs. Skills learned and strengthened through language therapy include listening to and following verbal directions, identifying age-appropriate language concepts and comprehending spoken language by asking and answering questions to gain information.
Expressive/Receptive Language

Fluency

Fluency therapy (also known as stuttering) involves providing our clients the skills necessary to self-monitor and self-correct fluency skills in conversation. Depending on the client’s age, therapists may work to simply provide education and resources to families while providing a safe and calm environment or working through skills needed to self-monitor speaking fluency across many environments.
Fluency

Social Pragmatic Skills

Social pragmatic language includes the skills we use in our daily interactions with others. This includes what we say, how we say it, how we react to social situations and how we identify the thoughts and feelings of those around us. Our therapists enjoy utilizing Social Thinking curriculums such as the Zones of Regulation, We Thinkers and Superflex to teach these skills. We also offer a weekly social group for middle school and high school students!
Social Pragmatic Skills

Voice/Resonance

Voice and resonance disorders can include hypernasality, hyponasality, cul-de-sac resonance and mixed resonance. Our speech therapists assess and identify disorders and work to achieve improved resonance and articulation sufficient to allow for functional oral communication.
Voice/Resonance
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Insurance for Speech Therapy

If your child has been referred for speech therapy, we’ll help you figure out the insurance details before treatment begins. We work with many commercial insurance plans and Medicaid, and our team can verify your benefits, explain your coverage, and let you know about any copays, deductibles, or authorization requirements.
Have questions about your plan? Give us a call and we’ll check your benefits for you.
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Testimonials

What Parents and Employees Say About Us

"I absolutely love working alongside such a supportive team! Everyone is quick to lend a hand, collaborate on a shared client, brainstorm, and share resources! I feel valued as a professional and cared for as an individual. I know every single person is willing to help me in a time of professional or personal need. Hard work is noticed and recognized through Workplace Rewards, kind notes, encouraging cards, candy, and small gifts."
∼ Victoria P OT
"KCT is different because we are not focused on the billable hours. Our focus is to provide the best quality services to our clients and community while still taking care of our employees and ensuring their workplace experience is top-notch. I love talking about my experience at KCT. I know in my heart I will work here until I retire! I have been given the opportunities to grow as a therapist and a leader in this company."
∼ Alyssa HST
"We have enjoyed every aspect of our time with KCT. The resources sent home and whole receiving services have been amazing and have helped my child come a long way in a short amount of time. It also has helped her generalize that these things are every day tasks that she needs to grasp."
∼ KCT Parent
"She loves each and every one of her therapists. She's referred to it as "play school" since day 2. So she has a great time, and she enjoys every day that she goes."
∼ KCT Parent
"It's made a huge difference. My child is now more vocal and more independent in her every day tasks."
∼ KCT Parent
"The relationship my son has built with his therapist is truly special. It is the reason he has progressed as far as he has. He trusts her and connects with her. That’s huge for a kiddo from trauma!"
∼ KCT Parent
"His therapist does so much research and training to dig deep and try to figure out how to help him. We have even had a recent breakthrough with him, only because of research she did."
∼ KCT Parent
"KCT is different because they take the needs and suggestions of their employees and immediately act upon them. They see a need for a single client or a group of clients and they work to meet that need."
∼ KCT Parent
"The things I love most about Kids Count Therapy are the relationships and the family-like atmosphere that is evident when walking to any building at KCT. The people and the kids are what make this work fun, meaningful, and worthwhile."
∼ Kenzi LOT
"I have always felt supported and encouraged, even in difficult situations. I always feel like I am able to speak my mind in a professional matter. I also always feel like I am supported to grow in my interests."
∼ Keeley HOT
"The progress my daughter has made while working with Mya is stunning! She always goes the extra mile, and thinks outside the box with new ways to help."
∼ KCT Parent
"Our daughter's speech therapist has been such a blessing to me as a parent. I had initially wondered if our daughter would feel odd or unenthusiastic because she was the only child in our household who had to go speech therapy. On the contrary, she was pleased and excited about going to speech therapy each week and she has gained confidence in her speech skills."
∼ KCT Parent
"Miss Jackie is wonderful! She is so patient and teaches me as a mom just as much as she teaches my son how to handle different situations."
∼ KCT Parent
"Kristen has been doing such a good job with my child in speech therapy. He always looks forward to coming to speech :)"
∼ KCT Parent
"We love our KCT family. Having been number 7 for the facility, going from only the farm house and seeing how much KCT has grown is really remarkable. Not only is it bringing growth for my child in so many ways, but I truly believe that with all the services KCT provides they maybe the only ones (that I know of) that provide Mental Health services. PCIT therapy is hard to find a provider for, and for KCT to provide staff who are knowledgeable in this field is HUGE! While not only has my child been blessed with this amazing opportunity to be with KCT, communities around have been touched as well. KCT really does SERVE not only clients but their families, and the communities around them."
∼ KCT Parent