
CLASS, Inc. designs service delivery to meet each child's needs. We recognize that the needs of today may be different from those of tomorrow. Each child's program is thoroughly reviewed every three months to determine to best menu of professionals and treatments that will capitalize on current learning potential. Services include, but are not limited to:
- Consultation
- Evaluation
- Individual treatment
- Small group treatment
- Social Language Groups:
Designed to provide opportunities for children to learn and practice social/peer interaction skills. A certified speech-language pathologist facilitates learning through fun and functional leisure activities that address specific social skills. Topics addressed include: initiating and maintaining conversations, turn-taking, using non-verbal language, understanding the emotions of others and negotiating. Each 8 week session builds upon skills previously mastered. - Play Groups:
Highly motivating play sessions lead by certified speech language pathologists target social and play skills for children. Fun toys and semi-structured play activities provide the framework for teaching social interaction skills, pretend play skills, problem solving and appropriate participation. Specific skills include: successfully managing transitions, shared play, negotiating, scaffolding symbolic themes and group participation. Each 8 week session develops lasting friendships. - Augmentative Communication User's Groups:
This semi-structured group provides opportunities for children and teens that use augmentative communication to participate in social and leisure activities with other users. Speed and fluency of device use is enhanced through functional practice in a safe, supportive setting. During the groups, the children and teens practice social interaction and conversational skills while learning new, age appropriate leisure skills. These 8 week sessions build competence and confidence! - Language and Literacy Learning Groups:
Using classic literature, each 8 week session successfully teaches participants proven emergent and early literacy strategies to assist them in becoming fluent readers of a variety of print material. These groups are wonderful for language delayed children, struggling readers and children needing an extra boost in the kindergarten through early elementary years. Learn more ...
- Social Language Groups:
- Co-treatment (For example: speech therapy/developmental optometry consultation, speech therapy/vision therapy, etc.)

Areas of Specialty
The talented CLASS, Inc. staff has extensive background and training in the following areas:
- Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Articulation Disorders
- Auditory Processing Disorders
- Cognitive Delays
- Coordination Difficulties
- Childhood Apraxia of Speech
- Childhood Apraxia of Speech: Technical Report (PDF)
- Childhood Apraxia of Speech: Position Statement (PDF)
- Is it Baby Babble or a Sign of Speech Problems? (YouTube video about Apraxia)
- Expressive Language Disorders (using language)
- Language Processing Disorders
- Motor Dyspraxia
- Receptive Language Disorders (understanding language)
- Sensory Integration Disorders
- Social Language difficulties (pragmatics)
- Feeding Disorders

