Evidence-based. Thoughtfully delivered.

Benchmark Therapy

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We will ensure that you are involved throughout your child’s speech and language therapy. Starting from a carefully crafted treatment plan, we will utilize engaging evidence-based strategies tailored to your child that work for your family. You are uniquely positioned as the expert on YOUR child, and we will help you feel equipped and confident in supporting their growth. Parent coaching is woven into every session, calibrated to your child's age and your family's needs. Whether you're practicing strategies alongside your toddler or checking in after a session with your ten year old, you will always know exactly what we're working on and why. Our coaching is warm, encouraging, and specific because every family deserves to feel supported.

  • In-home therapy

  • Serving children from 12 months through early adolescence

  • Parent coaching built into every session

  • Tailored blend of play-based and structured tasks

  • Up-to-date, proven treatment methods

  • Session length determined by your child’s needs

Thorough evaluations built on curiosity and precision.

Benchmark Evaluations

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A quality evaluation is the foundation of effective therapy. Our evaluations are comprehensive, unhurried, and take place in your home. We plan our assessment tasks carefully and consider outside records and reports from school, medical professionals, and other providers. For school-age children, written language tasks will be incorporated into our assessments. We may request video samples of your child at home to ensure that we capture the full picture. A meeting for report review will be held at our office in order to ensure a distraction-free discussion of results and recommendations.

  • In-depth case history and parent interview

  • Review of reports from school and other providers

  • Highest quality standardized tests

  • Assessment tasks individually designed for your child

  • Results shared in dedicated feedback session

  • Second opinion consultations and evaluations available

Our Specialties

Language

Whether your child is a late talker, navigating the demands of academic language, or somewhere in between, we can help. A few of our most common intervention areas that create meaningful results include:

  • Vocabulary development

  • Explicit instruction in sentence and word structure

  • Story structure and narrative skills

  • Main idea, inference, and critical thinking

  • Social aspects of language

  • Pre-verbal foundations that support language, such as gesturing and joint attention

Language underlies everything — how your child learns, connects, and communicates, and we will meet your child exactly where they are.

Literacy

SLPs are uniquely positioned to address literacy-based challenges like dyslexia due to our extensive training in the linguistic foundation that reading requires, rather than teaching skills in isolation. We are rooted in the Science of Reading and target the following areas systematically and intensively:

  • Phonological and phonemic awareness — hearing and manipulating the sound structure of words

  • Letter-sound correspondence/decoding

  • Reading fluency and comprehension

  • Spelling patterns and orthographic knowledge

  • All levels of written expression

If reading or writing is a struggle, the answer isn’t to wait and see. We can diagnose the exact issue and ensure your child gets the support needed.

Neurodiversity

We celebrate neurodivergent children (and families!). Whether your child has autism, ADHD, another neurological difference, or you’re in the process of figuring it out, we can support your child’s communication growth.

  • Therapy built around what engages your child, not what's convenient for us

  • Responsive to your child’s sensory, attentional, and self-regulation needs

  • Meaningful, functional goals

  • Deep respect for neurodivergent identity and all communication modalities

  • Experience collaborating with OT, psychology, and school teams

These values aren't new to us. They have always been at the core of how we work. Your child is safe and accepted as they are are with us.

Speech Sound Disorders

For children with difficulties pronouncing specific sounds, patterns of errors, or residual issues after prior speech therapy, we use evidence-based strategies to improve clarity.

  • Articulation — the production of individual sounds, treated with auditory feedback, mirrors, tactile, and gestural cues

  • Phonology — the underlying patterns that govern how sounds work together, treated with research-based strategies like Cycles and Complexity for efficient growth

  • Comprehensive evaluations that include standardized testing, pattern analysis, stimulability probes and oral-motor exams

  • High-energy sessions focused on maximizing the number of practice opportunities for target sounds

Unintelligible speech can affect a child's social life and school participation. Research shows that untreated phonological disorders in young children elevate the risk for reading disabilities. Prompt, high-quality treatment is essential.

Stuttering

Stuttering comes with more misinformation than almost any other area we treat. We are here to educate and empower your family with:

  • Honest conversations about the factors specific to your child that suggest persistence versus recovery

  • Early intervention rooted in parent education to replace myths with actual research findings

  • Encouraging openness about stuttering with your child, with us, with anyone. You are allowed to call it stuttering!

  • Acceptance-based therapy for older children to reduce the psychological burden

  • Choice of treatment guided by your family's values — some families want a more direct approach, and we can honor that

  • Integrated treatment of co-occurring speech and language issues

Whatever your child's path looks like, we will walk it with you honestly, warmly, and without judgment.

Intellectual Disability

Children with ID (called cognitive impairment in schools) experience unique communication challenges that deserve a thoughtful approach. Whether your child's disability has a known medical cause or the origin is undetermined, our therapy is grounded in functional outcomes and meaningful participation in activities of daily life.

  • Treatment that factors in co-occurring conditions such as ASD, ADHD, and CP

  • Focus on functional and core vocabulary using multimodal communication

  • Strategic use of visual aids

  • Evidence-based repetition strategies that strengthen learning and build lasting skills

  • Family coaching to embed practice naturally into daily life

  • Warmth, reduced pressure, and genuine joy in every session

Every child deserves to be heard, understood, and fully included in their own life, and we will work with you toward this objective.

Get Started with Benchmark Today.