Ms. Margaret (as she likes her patients to call her) is currently providing services to ALL of Warren County, and is accepting new patients with LITTLE or NO wait time! Conveniently located on the PA/NY border, her clinic in Russell, PA offers a quiet, quaint and high quality environment for your loved one to succeed! With flexible hours and creative solutions, she is happy to design a Plan of Care (POC) that works for YOUR family and YOUR loved one.
Ms. Margaret has been providing quality speech, language, and feeding therapy for more than a DECADE; with intensive outpatient experience in Las Vegas, NV.; elementary and middle school experience in Lakeview, PA.; and both pediatric and geriatric feeding/swallowing skills via a sensory motor approach, diet modifications and subtle lifestyle shifts.
Tongue Ties
cheek ties, and/or lip ties, are becoming more common and are in need to more attention. While it primarily affects infants who are latching, nursing or learning how to eat/speak for the first time, they all can have longlasting effects! With an emphasis on myofunctional therapy, Ms. Margaret is passionate about teaching parents and caregivers how to help their children to open spaces in their mouth through exercise, massage, and increased awareness!
Feeding Therapy
Because mealtimes have become both an essential part of our health, and an essential part of our family’s holiday, we need to focus on feeding skills and mealtime behaviors more than ever!! Research shows that behaviors around Selective Feeding based around Selective Sometimes people struggle to chew and develop a “texture thing,” related to preferred foods. Sometimes people have some sort of sensory deficit where the colors, shapes, smells, or sounds at mealtime completely turn them away! Sometimes people have difficulty with trunk support, strength, or attention, causing distress during feeding. Lets discuss ways to improve your family’s time around food!
Speech Therapy
The speed, sound production, and characteristics in which we speak (the intonation, pitch, tone, and volume) hold a lot of meaning in the way we communicate. Through clinical evaluation, evidenced based practices, and therapeutic activities, all of these things can be improved!
Language
The way we string together ideas into sentences, describe things, and/or understand or process the whole around us, helps to build the assumptions of our world. This streamlines throughout language. In English, there are many ways to structure sentences, and stories are some of our greatest gifts from generation to generation. Improving language can improve friendships, relationships, and employment in all ages and stages of life!
*Speech Language Pathologists (SLPs) specialize in providing therapeutic activities and strategies for language development, speech sound accuracy, vocal care and quality, social and cognitive skills, and just about anything else related to the way you communicate.
**Pediatric Feeding Therapists specialize in providing therapeutic exercises, stimulators and/or adaptations including sensory lead weaning, initial food exploration, safe and controlled swallowing and potential weaning from G-Tubes (when possible). Ms. Margaret is currently completing extensive training to become a Certified Pediatric Feeding Therapist (September 2024).
Ms. Margaret has been an ASHA Clinically Certified Competent SLP since 2014! The American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA, pronounced “ash-uh”) is a national organization that represented the professional, scientific, and credentialing association for over 22,000 members.
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