Speech therapy tailored to your family’s needs
Neurodiversity affirming, affordable speech therapy with treatment plans customized to your child’s unique profile
Learn about our services
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An initial evaluation helps identify each child’s specific areas of need and create a baseline that can be used to track progress over time. Areas to evaluate might include speech, language, and executive function, depending on our observations and parental concerns.
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Do you have a late talker? Or a child who seems to be struggling to build vocabulary and use more complex grammatical structures? Are they having difficulty remembering or following directions? We can help build these language skills!
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Articulation is the “speech” part of speech therapy! Has your child been receiving speech services at school, but could use an extra boost? Or maybe they haven’t worked with a speech therapist yet, but you know they need some speech support! Whether your child just needs to work on 1 or 2 sounds or they are very difficult to understand, articulation therapy can help.
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Available to come to your school or daycare for speech and language screenings! Each screening takes about 15 minutes and provides a quick snapshot of whether children would benefit from further evaluation or from monitoring, or if they likely fall within normal limits for their age. A screening is NOT an evaluation, but it gives us a good idea of whether an evaluation is warranted for a child.
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Whether your child has an official diagnosis of ADHD, autism, or they are simply having more difficulty than their peers with perception, attention, inhibition, working memory, planning, etc., we can help them work to strengthen these essential executive function skills!
Our practice is neurodiversity affirming and always working to improve our understanding and knowledge in this area.
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This class is for any preschool aged children! We'll be building vocabulary, supporting language development and phonological (sound) awareness, practicing pre-literacy skills, as well as getting lots of practice with peer-to-peer social interactions. Parents are encouraged to participate and will receive a parent handout each week with ideas for how to extend the learning through the following week!
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Gestalt Language Processing support coming soon!
Our practice is neurodiversity affirming and always working to improve our understanding and knowledge in this area.
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Literacy support coming soon!
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After homeschooling for more than a decade, homeschool families are close to Becky’s heart! We can use our speech and language expertise to help support your homeschool journey. Many if not most children with articulation delays or disorders also have weak phonological processing skills, which can lead directly to literacy difficulty. Weak executive function skills can impact absolutely every area of learning. We can work together to determine areas that need more support and create a customized plan for your child.
Getting Started
Step 1
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Click the blue button below to schedule a free 15 minute consultation to discuss your concerns and make a plan to get you started receiving the services you need. We will work together to determine how to best gather information for therapy planning, including formal assessment, dynamic assessment, interviews, and observations. You may schedule your consultation via text, phone, or email, and the conversation can take place through a phone call, video chat, or an in person conversation.
Step 2
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Evaluations may include an articulation assessment, a language assessment, and an executive function assessment, depending on areas of need. We may use a combination of formal (standardized tests) and informal measures (observations and interviews as well as dynamic assessment). If testing has been completed recently by another speech language pathologist, it is possible that we can use their evaluation to move forward to starting therapy without completing additional testing.
Assessments may take several sessions depending on the specific measures needed for a client’s unique profile, as well as their capacity to participate in testing activities for longer stretches of time. Our goal is to keep the evaluation process enjoyable and comfortable for clients, so we will take breaks as needed and schedule additional testing days as necessary.
Evaluations will be strengths-based and focus on what an individual CAN do, as well as areas where they may need support.
Step 3
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We will create treatment goals that we will be working towards based on the evaluation, including family goals and priorities for communication needs. Therapy goals will be updated in progress reports on a quarterly basis (4 times a year).
Frequency and length of therapy sessions will depend on how many areas of need a child has as well as families’ scheduling considerations. A child who only needs to work on 1 or 2 sounds might be able to make good progress with 30 minute sessions, 2x per week. A child with more involved language needs, or who needs to work on both language and articulation might benefit more from 60 minute sessions, 2x per week. In general therapy will be much more effective and progress will be greater with at least 2 sessions per week.
We believe in presuming competence, setting strengths based goals, respecting sensory preferences, embracing special interests, and emphasizing connection.
Communication is a human right.
Haslett Speech Therapy is a neurodiversity affirming practice, meaning that we view all variations of brain function and cognitive styles to be a natural part of being human, rather than deficits or disorders. We connect and build relationships with our clients first. Our priority will always be respecting each person’s diverse needs, and staying curious about their unique experience in this beautiful world. Our plan for every client, whether neurodivergent or neurotypical, is to empower them to meet their own goals and to learn to be their own best advocates. Because neurodivergent people are living in a world designed for and by neurotypical people, they could often use extra support and strategies to navigate life’s challenges in a way that works with their strengths and honors their needs.
FAQs
Do you take insurance?
Not right now! But we do have an innovative pricing plan to help keep your therapy costs affordable. Read this post to get the details!
Currently we accept cash, check, or credit card. We are happy to create a superbill for each session for you to give to your insurance company. If you have out of network benefits sometimes they will reimburse some of the cost of therapy. We also accept Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account (HSA/FSA) payments.
What is Tiny Talkers?
Tiny Talkers is a preschool language enrichment class for any children ages 2-5. We will post class schedules as they become available, but if you don’t see a time that works for you please reach out! We are happy to accommodate family’s schedules as much as possible. We'll be building vocabulary, supporting language development and phonological (sound) awareness, practicing pre-literacy skills, as well as getting lots of practice with peer-to-peer social interactions. Parents are encouraged to participate and will receive a parent handout each week with ideas for how to extend the learning through the following week!
What is a superbill?
A superbill is paperwork documenting therapy charges that you have already paid. Many speech therapy clients who have out-of-network benefits find success submitting a superbill to their insurance company for partial reimbursement. It is up to each family to contact their insurance company to find out if they are eligible. Payment is due at the time of service.
Can you do therapy at my home/ school/ daycare/ local park?
Probably! Reach out and let’s see if we can find a time and location that works for all parties. Our goal is to accommodate families’ needs and schedules as much as possible because we know from personal experience how hard it is to fit therapy into our already full lives!
Where are you located?
Our clinic space is in Haslett, MI, however at this time we are also providing mobile therapy options. If you are interested in having therapy take place in your home, your child’s school, daycare, or even (weather depending) finding a local park for nature based therapy, let’s talk! Depending on the specifics of the location it is likely we can make it work.
Resources
Learn Play Thrive (trainings for parents and caregivers of Autistic kids)
NeuroClastic: The Autism Spectrum According to Autistic People
Meaningful Speech (courses on gestalt language processing and delayed echolalia)
Tera Sumpter’s Seeds of Learning (online learning community that will teach you everything you didn’t know you needed to know about executive function)
Speech and Language Suggestions for Parents from ASHA (Birth-4)
About
Becky Cavnar, M.S. CCC-SLP
Becky Cavnar has been a speech therapist since she graduated from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee back in 2008 with her M.S. She spent some time as a speech therapist in the public schools in Michigan, and more recently she has been working as a homeschooling parent for her 4 children. As her kids have gotten older they have transitioned into our fantastic local public schools. Becky is so excited to connect with your family to share her love of all things communication based!
Becky is an endlessly curious person, which will serve you well because there’s nothing she loves more than immersing herself in the latest evidence based practice, or coming up with creative approaches to speech and language problems. She began her path as an SLP after falling in love with the study of phonetics in a Spanish Phonetics class in undergrad.
Her current interests include how executive function underlies every part of language and articulation development (and really every part of learning), hiking, reading incessantly, and having coffee with friends. She lives in Haslett, Michigan in a house that backs up to some amazing wetlands with her sweet husband, 4 kids, 2 cats who are supposed to be indoors but love to sneak out and have adventures, and 4 chickens (they live out in the chicken run, though, thankfully).
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