Our Unique Process

At the heart of our process is one simple truth:
When we see more, we teach better.

Our transdisciplinary model allows us to integrate insight from every discipline — turning research into action, data into growth, and therapy into connection.

This is our secret sauce — where heart meets science, and every child’s potential becomes possible.

We provide effective, evidence-based communication intervention for children who are non-speaking or minimally verbal.

Our model is built on the belief that children make the greatest gains when communication science and behavior science don’t just work in parallel — they work together.

At Integrated Speech & Behavior, our speech-language pathologists, behavior analysts, and trained technicians work under one roof to create meaningful, measurable progress for every child.

We don’t just treat communication delays — we teach children to connect, to be understood, and to thrive.

Our model is more than collaboration — it’s true integration.
We call it The IS&B Method: a transdisciplinary approach that blends the heart of speech-language therapy with the science of behavior analysis.

Speech Therapy Brings the Heart

Speech therapy is about connection. It’s human, flexible, and rooted in helping children communicate meaningfully in their world. It honors autonomy and teaches communication that makes sense in context — building intrinsic motivation, confidence, and joy.

ABA Brings the
Structure

ABA adds the framework — systematic, data-driven, and measurable. It helps us break complex skills into teachable steps and use objective data to refine therapy in real time. It creates consistency and clarity that allow children to make visible progress.

Together, They Create Transformation

By integrating these disciplines, our team:

• Uses AAC and vocal speech as complementary tools
• Makes data-informed decisions that actually improve therapy, not just document it
• Cross-trains every team member
  • SLPs learn the science of learning
  • BCBAs learn AAC and communication development
  • RBTs learn how to teach speech in every interaction

It’s a model designed to do more than deliver therapy — it creates a shared language across disciplines that accelerates growth.

Because we know it can be done better.

After more than a decade as a behaviorally oriented speech therapy practice, founded under the dual certification of an SLP and BCBA, we’ve seen what happens when silos come down. We’ve built systems, tools, and training that make a tangible difference for families — and now, we’re taking it to the next level.

Our goals are to:

• Bring intensive ABA teaching and data collection to communication intervention
• Train more professionals to deliver high-quality, individualized therapy
• Build a network of research, mentorship, and collaboration that raises the bar for communication outcomes everywhere

This is where we come together — to teach kids, take data, and share what works — continually refining the art and science of helping children find their voice.

That growing clarity — that willingness to see the whole, not just the part — is what makes our work so powerful.

There’s an ancient story from India about three blind men who each touch a different part of an elephant.
One feels the trunk and insists it’s a snake. Another touches the leg and declares it a tree.
A third places his hand on the side and says it’s a wall. Each man is partly right, but none can see the full picture.

That’s what happens in our field. Every discipline—speech, behavior, education, neuroscience—touches a different part of the same whole.
At IS&B, we don’t claim to see it all, but we do have a few more hands on the elephant.

By learning together and sharing what we see, we get closer to understanding the whole picture —
the full picture of each child,
of what it truly takes to support complex communicators,
of how to use AAC as both a communication system and a teaching tool,
and of the nuanced ways autism shapes learning and connection.

That growing clarity — that willingness to see the whole, not just the part — is what makes our work so powerful.

At the heart of our process is one simple truth:
When we see more, we teach better.

Our transdisciplinary model allows us to integrate insight from every discipline — turning research into action, data into growth, and therapy into connection.

This is our secret sauce — where heart meets science, and every child’s potential becomes possible.