About the Practice:
At Naturally Empowered Speech-Language Services LLC, pediatric clients will be provided speech-language therapy services in an outdoor setting. Therapy services will target articulation, language, social communication, and fluency to improve overall communication. Therapy will be centered around outdoor activities, such as gardening, animal interactions, and outdoor play.
Gardening includes things such as planting seeds, pulling weeds, picking flowers, harvesting fruits and vegetables, and washing/eating fruits and vegetables when approved by parents. Animal interactions will include child-friendly animals such as chickens, non-horned goats, rabbits, and kittens/cats. Children will be guided in hand feeding and brushing goats; feeding and petting chickens; gently petting cats/kittens; and brushing, feeding, and petting rabbits. Outdoor play may include wagon rides, swinging on sensory swings, playing with a ball, scavenger hunts, and other child-appropriate activities. During activities, the speech-language pathologist will be targeting speech-language goals, using the outdoor activities as opportunities for communication and as reinforcement. Fun, engaging, real-life experiences in the natural world will encourage and facilitate increased communication and allow for increased generalization of skills, due to goals being targeted in a real-life, everyday activity, rather than a clinical setting.
About the Therapist:
Elyse Moore is a licensed, ASHA-certified speech-language pathologist who is passionate about helping children communicate to their full potential. She is committed to making therapy activities fun and engaging, and using multi-sensory, real-life experiences and collaboration with families to maximize clients' progress and generalization of skills. Elyse graduated with a Masters Degree in Speech-Language Pathology in 2012 from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and has experience serving children birth to 21 in a school setting both in-person and virtually. Her specific areas of interest include speech sound disorders, childhood apraxia of speech, fluency disorders (stuttering), autism spectrum disorders, augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), and early language and literacy skills.
Elyse and her husband, Ryan, love raising their two children, Brigham and Harriet. They enjoy playing board games, caring for their many animals, gardening, hiking/exploring, reading, doing arts/crafts, singing, dancing, and volunteering with their church.
