Integrated Speech & Behavior Therapy – Integrated Speech & Behavior

"Under IS&B's guidance, our daughter is building capacity to express his needs and desires through communication rather than resorting to behaviors."
"IS&B's high level of fun and creativity instatnly got my 13-year-old boy engaged and motivated to learn."

Integrated Speech and Behavior (IS&B) is committed to every child having a joyful and personally expressed life with genuine relationships, meaningful interventions, and tailored technology.

ABOUT US

We are a team of passionate and licensed Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) committed to meaningful, research-based outcomes.

Our clinical experience spans the fields of Speech-Language Pathology and Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), which allows us to teach communication through behaviorally-oriented interventions. Together the individual, parent, and therapist work to identify behaviors and skills that significantly increase quality of life and communication, while decreasing less productive and challenging behaviors.

COLLABORATION

IS&B believes that effective teams are critical for lasting and meaningful change.
Collaboration is the name of the game, and we LOVE working with other professionals. Given our background, we have the opportunity to bring teams of multiple professionals together with a single set of common goals that we all agree will make the greatest impact on our clients and their families.

Most of our clients receive multiple therapies a week and have numerous interventionists.
In fact, it is unusual for us to represent the only speech language pathologist (SLP) and Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) on the team. We enjoy partnering with ABA teams and other SLP’s to provide global skill intervention with a focus on improving communication.

WHY INTEGRATED SPEECH AND BEHAVIOR?

CREDENTIALED & LICENSED

IS&B employs SLPs with a rare combination of skills in speech, behavior, and technology. We work in the business of humanity and the path is not always linear. Our team understands that together with the family, we will create a program that moves and grows with the individual.

EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE

The staff of IS&B has experience working in public schools, private schools, clinics, and homes in the areas of: speech-generating devices, apraxia, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Pivotal Response Training, ABA/Verbal Behavior, literacy, and Social Thinking.

REAL-LIFE APPLICATION

IS&B looks at the whole individual within a global context to ensure that skills are practical and doable within a day-to-day routine, integrating communication fully into the individual’s life in functional and meaningful ways. We work to support families to generalize these skills.

INTEGRATING SPEECH & BEHAVIOR

Communication is a behavior and it is shapeable. Because our staff specializes in communication AND behavior, we offer a rare and effective service in the community where we can deliver intervention focusing on decreasing unproductive behaviors and increasing communication.

POSITIVE & TEAM-FOCUSED

We use every resource at our disposal to improve the life of each individual client. As professionals and parents, compassion always comes first. We’re trained to recognize different perspectives and to step into the shoes of each team member in order to bridge a sense of understanding.

TRANSPARENT TREATMENT

We believe that the more people agree and are aligned on a specific program, the better the progress. Families and their teams have access to the individual’s current goals and strategies created by IS&B so that interventions can be active and accountable across environments.

DATA-DRIVEN DECISIONS

IS&B uses consistent and formal data tracking to measure and graph progress. The data drives our decisions. If progress is not being made, the program is re-evaluated and quickly adjusted to make efficient use of the individual’s/family’s time and resources.

AUTHENTIC RELATIONSHIPS

IS&B understands that when individuals feel valued and important, they will naturally want to express their unique stories. By creating authentic relationships with our clients, IS&B’s therapists provide the tools and opportunities to allow people to express those stories and communicate with a variety of partners.

Our Services

We provide direct, weekly intervention for clients using speech-generating devices (SGDs) in their homes, schools, or communities. We work with individuals in the environment where intervention will be most effective and meaningful.

We provide:

Evaluation to obtain an appropriate speech generating device

Evaluation of current levels of communication skills through the lens of Speech-Language Pathology and Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA).

Treatment using a combination of evidence-based strategies from the fields of Speech-Language Pathology and ABA.

We teach:

How and when to communicate

Responding to different stimuli using functional communication

Navigation of the client’s device in a systematic way

We provide consultative services to families, clients, and school teams who may not need or cannot coordinate weekly intervention.

We consult on:

Customization and programming of the device
Training of device implementation
Systematic teaching plans using direct and naturalistic strategies across multiple environments
Strategic written plans for an individual’s communication development

We love what we do and we love teaching others how to do it.

We are transparent and systematic! We problem-solve with parents and professionals regarding every client case to help bring optimism and success to all families, individuals, and therapists. We provide individualized trainings to families and therapy teams about communication plans and teaching strategies specific to an individual.

We present tailored trainings to organizations and companies specializing in speech therapy or ABA, day treatment facilities, schools, and home teams on the following topics:

ABA Basics and What an SLP Should Know
Communication Device and ABA Teaching Strategies
Verbal Behavior and Speech Language Pathology: Combining Perspectives
How PTs, OTs, and SLPs Can Best Support In-Home ABA Teams
How SLPs Can Successfully Work with an Individual with Challenging Behavior

In an attempt to make our services accessible to all families, IS&B accepts:

Medicaid
Private payment
Insurance as an out-of-network provider

"Under IS&B's guidance, our daughter is building capacity to express his needs and desires through communication rather than resorting to behaviors."

"IS&B's high level of fun and creativity instatnly got my 13-year-old boy engaged and motivated to learn."

Integrated Speech and Behavior (IS&B) is committed to every child having a joyful and personally expressed life with genuine relationships, meaningful interventions, and tailored technology.

ABOUT US

COLLABORATION

WHY INTEGRATED SPEECH AND BEHAVIOR?

Our Services

AMY FETTER, FOUNDER

KATE BRENNAN

CARLY HAMMELRATH

MOLLY STRAUSS

MELISSA GIES