Zebra Speech

07/16/2025

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Are you looking for fun games to play with your preschooler that promote early literacy skills? You’ve come to the right place! Below are fun and easy games that your preschooler will love to play at home and that will help them develop their pre-literacy skills (letter identification, identifying...

07/02/2025

Our Locations: Braintree, Brookline, Franklin, Marlborough, Southborough, and Stoneham

05/29/2025

Talking Tips!

05/20/2025

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PICTURES!Collect some of your favorite photos of family members and make color copies. Post these pictures around your house, make them into a small book, or even hide them inside of your child’s favorite toys. When your child discovers these pictures provide simple models for your child to label ...

11/26/2024

Our five locations across MA: Brookline, Braintree, Franklin, Southborough, and Marlborough

11/05/2024

Yes, absolutely. In fact, most of our clients are enrolled in other speech therapy services, whether that is through school or early intervention. Services at Zebra Speech are often sought out by our parents to intensify intervention with hopes of accelerating improvements to skills. When a child is also enrolled in services with a school-based SLP, we will give you the opportunity to provide us with consent to speak with that provider on an ongoing basis. With signed consent, we will reach out to your school-based SLP and discuss our treatment plan on a regular basis to ensure that there is consistency for the efforts in meeting your child’s communication needs.

10/22/2024

Objectified Speech Therapy® (OST Method) is a highly specialized and organized clinical approach to speech and language therapy services. It provides a structured framework based on three primary tenants:

Use of client-specific data to inform clinical decision making on a session – by – session basis.

Focus on a child's experience to capture interests and motivations, building self-confidence, all to achieve a child’s full communicative potential.

Transparency and accountability that support highly successful and maximized outcomes.

The overarching goal of the Objectified Speech Therapy® (OST Method) method is to help children attain measurable success by realizing their speech-language pathology specific goals as quickly as possible.

Using real-time data analytics, Objectified Speech Therapy tools continually provide a clinician the feedback and insights to make regular adjustments to maximize the rate of success of each patient. The data is analyzed automatically to assist in flagging concerns or areas that can improve.

As part of the OST Method, data is shared with the stake holders (e.g., parents and guardians), specifically detailing and graphing all targeted objectives, for each treatment appointment. Ultimately, data sharing is a cornerstone to creating true transparency and accountability in a way that is currently unparalleled in the field of speech-language pathology.

10/16/2024

Talking tips!

10/07/2024

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Many children enrolled at the practice are working on speech sound production skills. There are some tips parents can do at home to support what is being taught in session.

09/24/2024

Social group sessions are 30-minute group appointments held within our clinic conducted by several pediatric speech-language pathologists with one or more peers who are likely working on similar or even complementary skills. The purpose of our therapeutic social skills groups is to prompt, scaffold, and clinically support use of appropriate social skills with other children while engaging in cooperative, collaborative, and interactive activities.

Children enrolled in group sessions are paired with a therapist 1:1, within the group setting to provide skillful support to a child’s participation.

For example, a group of children may engage in weekly “chats” or game playing with support for topic maintenance, social referencing, commenting, asking questions, problem solving, or coping with losing a game.

We typically recommend simultaneous enrollment in individual speech therapy sessions to intensively and directly target social skills that will facilitate better group participation.

09/18/2024

You can enroll is our services by completing our intake form (click here). Once we have all of your basic information, you will be scheduled for an intake call within a few days. The intake call will take approximately 15 minutes depending on the nature of your concerns and your questions. Following the call, you will get information about next steps for beginning services or be placed on our waiting list.

Depending on your child’s schedule availability, we can book a first appointment as soon as 2 weeks from your initial call, but prime time availability (in the afterschool hours is more limited) and may require a wait. We do offer services in the early mornings (starting at 7am), evening (last appointment starting at 6:30pm), and Saturdays, to allow for maximal opportunities for busy families!

09/12/2024

Highlights: by the numbers
Over 91% patient success rate practice wide
Over 10,000,000 data points recorded and analyzed
Over 500,000 1:1 clinic sessions conducted
Over $700,000 in Zebra Speech funded scholarships