Speech Associates

At Speech Language and Educational Associates, we pride ourselves with delivery of high quality service to our clients and their families to enhance their ability to reach their full potential! Join our team help, and us change lives every day! We are currently hiring for Behavior Therapists, and SLP’s! Click the link below to apply today: http://ow.ly/roXU50Cney4

There's always something to learn! Tik Tok phenom, 22-year old Nakia Smith has gone viral on the social media app thanks to her videos educating people about Bl...ack American Sign Language. Smith comes from a four-generation family of people who are deaf and utilizes her own experience to educate people on the deaf community and sign language. See more

Happy Hanukkah, from your SLEA family! #hanukkah #holidays #speechassociates #occupationaltherapy #speechtherapy #ST #OT #ABA

Increased screen time among young children is an understandable pandemic reality as parents juggle work, childcare, and other responsibilities. However, this ho...liday shopping season we can let parents and caregivers know that from a language and learning perspective, they don’t need to purchase tablets, smart watches, learning apps, or high-tech toys. See more

Speech Associates is now offering in-person services in our clinic settings plus virtual services. We are continuously assessing the status of COVID-19 and revise and monitor our needs based on any changes that occur in order to ensure the highest level of safety and care for everyone.

The smile on my face didn’t even compare to the smile and joy radiating from Emma’s beautiful face. It was the love, the hug, the acknowledgment and the reception she had been waiting for as long as she could remember.

In I Talk Like a River, the Canadian poet Jordan Scott recalls his own childhood struggle with stuttering. His episodic narrative, told in a few straightforward sentences per page, accompanied by gorgeous illustrations by Sydney Smith, is an empathetic conversation-starter for families seeking help for a young or not so young person who stutters.

Kids don’t need more stuff! Help kids learn and develop by limiting and rotating available toys. This will help promote increased attention! Thank you @healthiest_baby for the cute graphic and reminder this holiday season.

James got a delivery of various Batman goodies including his very own Batmobile accompanied by a signed card from Pattinson himself.

In one sense it is about individual behavior, but it is also about social structures and institutions. It’s important to explore the essential components of both.

Some activities for the holidays!

This year, though, more than 20 years later, I modeled in New York Fashion Week (NYFW), where I got to wear an outfit from Zappos Adaptive and make a short video. It feels like a win for me, sure, but it's a huge win for disability representation in fashion.

When parenting, you use the resources you have, and I’ve found that my wheelchair really has been one of my best resources!

Nicolas has cerebral palsy, which is the most common childhood motor disability globally and one that affects roughly one in 400 children in the U.K.. Growing up, he thought he would never be able to forge a career as a racing driver, but since 2011 he has worked his way up to the British Touring Car Championship and this year became the first disabled driver to score a point in the series' history.

Today is THE day and everyone's voice should be heard! Check out this story from the Today Show about an app that is making that very right more accessible to the millions of Americans with disabilities. Go vote! #election2020

"A jewelry designer’s TikTok has gone viral for chronicling the relationship between her sister and the latter’s boyfriend, both of whom have Down syndrome." Wo...man captures touching moment her sister with Down syndrome goes on date https://sports.yahoo.com/woman-captures-touching-moment-her See more

Alexandra Rivera , Toya Joyner, Sara Kubota, and Simren Chawla ESOP October Employees of the Month!!! We are SO lucky to have such a creative team of individuals to represent our ESOP committee at SLEA!! The events planned for this month are so amazing and you have gone above and beyond to make sure our staff have a fun and upbeat place to work where they can enjoy and socialize in so many different ways. It is amazing that you are all so dedicated and volunteer your time to make the ESOP committee happen. You can really feel the teamwork through the events and meetings. Thank you Alexandra, Toya, Sara, and Simren for making our ESOP at SLEA so special!!!

Check out the winners of our annual SLEA pumpkin decorating contest! Winners were selected by votes from our employee owners.

Remember to fall back on November 1!

While working in a special-needs classroom, Watkins joined the Los Angeles chapter of Second City, where improvisational comedy is both taught and performed. She discovered that many of her newly developed improv techniques were successful in engaging her own students.

Everyone in the U.S. is facing a new barrier to voting this year: COVID-19. But if you have a disability, 2020 probably isn't the first year you've faced one obstacle or another while casting your ballot.

I’m going to talk with my friends and play Roblox, Caleb said. It was a social activity that he had never engaged in prior to the COVID-19 outbreak and the subsequent move to online classes.