The Communication Clinic of Connecticut services children with speech and language difficulties between the ages of one year and 21 years.  While the clinic is known for working with children on the Autistic Spectrum, we also specialize in working with children who have been diagnosed with Childhood Speech Apraxia.   In addition, we treat children who have been diagnosed with the following disabilities: Nonverbal Learning Disability, Receptive Language Disorder and/or Expressive Language Disorder, Semantic Language Disorder, and Down Syndrome.   For the most part, we see children individually for therapy. However, when a child is ready, if an appropriate peer is available, we will place the child in a dyad. As it is our philosophy to address the whole child, when appropriate, we work on thinking skills and relatedness skills in addition to speech and language needs. The relatedness skills are approached through Relationship Development Intervention®, a parent based model.  In addition, to support thinking skills, we offer science groups exploring functional, life content.

To support the children’s abilities to generalize skills, whether it be speaking, thinking or relating, we have a kitchen, a laundry room, a bed, a play room and a bath tub (for water play!) available within the clinic.

Finally, as our children are often in the school setting, we will consult to the school systems. Since it is very important to us that all people interacting with the child understand the work we are doing, we share DVDs of our therapy with the parents and the school systems.  When the child comes to therapy, the parents or visiting teachers can either sit in the room and participate or watch through closed circuit television. Again, not only do we believe that we must educate the whole child, we also believe we must educate those people who spend the most time with the child.