Speech & Language Therapy

The Spero Academy Speech Department employs a multidisciplinary approach that involves:

Collaborating with teachers and paraprofessionals
Utilizing the push-in model of service
Leading classroom social skills groups
Preparing and instructing individualized articulation sessions
Supporting language during reading centers
Collaborating with Occupational Therapists
Teaching functional life skills
Facilitating social skills during lunch bunch
Modeling how to support language during academics
Using PROMPT (Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets) to facilitate articulation as needed
Using Social Thinking social skills curriculum
Promoting play and development of problem solving skills
Overseeing development and implementation of STACK (School-wide Technology and Augmentative Communication for Kids) Program: programming and use of iPads for communication for children that are functionally non-verbal or have limited verbal skills
Assisting in the development of The Spero Academy Skills Inventory: a measurement tool of joint attention and social play, self-regulation, communication, functional life skills and technology use