Therapeutic Serivces
Feeding therapy
Feeding therapy provides individualized plans, strategies, and tools to aid children in:
Expanding their repertoire of accepted foods.
Improve bottle or breastfeeding safety and efficiency.
Transition into eating solids from breast/bottle feeding or purées.
Improving motor abilities to successfully chew, manage food within the mouth, and swallow.
Decrease anxiety/stress around new foods.
Advance diet textures for children on IDDSI diets or who have sensory aversions to certain textures.
Wean from thickened feeds and tube feeds.
Increase intake for optimal growth and nutrition.
Pace when overstuffing or gagging is present.
Help to build or work with your existing team, which may include: physical therapists, occupational therapists, certified lactation consultants, GI doctors, nutritionists, teachers, siblings, grandparents, and more.
Speech and Language Therapy
Speech and language therapy provides individualized treatment to expand a child’s:
Articulation/intelligibility
Vocabulary
Sentence structure
Receptive Language, or understanding skills
Social, pragmatic language abilities
Speech fluency/stuttering
Self-advocacy
Play skills
Serving cities:
Redmond
Monroe
Snohomish
Duvall
Carnation
Fall City
Sammamish
Fridays at First Step Pediatric Therapies in Kirkland
All cities via teletherapy
HSA funds eligible Sliding scale available
Sessions
Initial evaluation
In-person appointment designed to gather information about your child’s strengths and needs. We will set goals and discuss therapy plans as a team. A written report will be supplied to you following this appointment.
60 mins | 90 mins
In-person or virtual appointments available. Sessions will be individualized to your child’s unique eating needs: supporting efficient breast/bottle feeding, transitioning to solids, building a sensory ladder to explore new flavors, textures, and food groups, working on strengthening the jaw and advancing chewing patterns, creating new recipes your whole family can enjoy together. Exercises and strategies you can use throughout the rest of the week will be provided with each appointment.
45 mins | 60 mins
Feeding therapy
Speech and language therapy
In-person or virtual appointments available. Sessions target communication skills that are causing frustration for your child. Strategies and activities that you can continue throughout the week will be provided each session. Flexible targets can address what is most impactful that day/week as well as long term goals for the year ahead.
30 mins | 60 min
Consultative calls
Virtual appointment to help you, or others on your team, to problem solve current struggles. Strategies, tools, and resources will be provided to you on this call.
20+ mins
SLP mentorship
In person and virtual collaboration. Receive one-on-one guidance specialized to your caseload as well as a google drive full of resources to grow your practice as a feeding therapist. Mentorships offered to clinical fellows, graduate clinicians, and experienced SLPs alike.
60 mins