Optimize Speech

05/23/2024

Email sarah@optimizetherapyservices.com for more details/to reserve your spot! Registration closes August 16th.

07/04/2023

Look who made the UT Blog! 🎨 🙌🏼 ✨❤️

Union-Tribune contributing photographer Kristian Carreon captured volunteers and artists painting a new mural at Waterfront Park.

The mural is a collaboration between adult artists with developmental disabilities, muralist Hanna Gundrum, a creative mentor at nonprofit Revision and the county of San Diego.

It includes multiple symbols the artists felt show inclusion, including an infinity sign representing the infinite potential for people with autism.

02/10/2023

Looking for support outside of the clinic? Optimize Speech offers a variety of services that you might not know about:
*Private consultations
*AAC Programing and Support
*IEP Support
*Individual Education Evaluations
*School Observations
*Community Activities support (e.g., zoo outings, gymnastics)

DM us or email lindsey@optimizetherapyservices.com for more information!

10/03/2022

05/16/2022

May is Better Hearing and Speech Month!

To celebrate, we want to introduce you to our SLP team here at Optimize.

Starting with.. Sarah!

Sarah leads the More Than Words® parent program every year for parents of kids with social communication goals. She enjoys talking about food, animals, and science facts. In therapy sessions she loves to sing, read or look at books, and follow wherever her client’s creativity takes them ◡̈

Feel free to send us a message or visit our website, optimizespeech.com, to learn more about Sarah, More Than Words®, or Optimize!

03/14/2022

Connect first! ✨
Repost: PlaySpark

03/07/2022

More Than Words®: The Hanen® Program for Parents of Children with ASD or Social Communication Difficulties

Offered via Telepractice 04/06/2022-06/15/2022

Please contact Sarah Sharit, M.A., CCC-SLP
sarah.sharit@gmail.com OR (619) 346-1738

You can also message Optimize directly or click the link below for more information!

http://www.hanen.org/Programs/For-Parents/More-Than-Words.aspx

03/07/2022

❤️
Credit: Cari Ebert Seminars

02/22/2022

Yes! Focus on functional words like EAT, HELP, ALL DONE, UP, MORE, GO, etc. 🙌🏼

Credit: Speech Sisters

01/24/2022

Repost PlaySpark ✨
“Play is the foundation to a true bond with our children.” Connect first!

01/18/2022

Repost .talkers 🗣

01/11/2022

We would add “WOO-HOO!” to this list!
(Courtesy of Speech Sisters)

12/08/2021

Presenting our gift guide for the 2021 holiday season ⭐️
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07/02/2020

More Than Words®: The Hanen® Program for Parents of Children with ASD or Social Communication Difficulties

Offered via Telepractice 08/04/20-10/13/20

Please contact Sarah Sharit, M.A., CCC-SLP
sarah.sharit@gmail.com OR (619) 346-1738

You can also message Optimize directly for more information!

06/23/2020

Yes Yes YES! ❤️

06/10/2020

Something to think about as you wrap up emergency schooling/distance learning and transition into summer (phew!). Take your well-deserved break and embrace the freedom from all-day zoom meetings and lesson planning! You did it...and now, it’s time to play, discover, and explore! Foster continued development and growth through new adventures and down time! You and your kiddos need it! We’ll be posting some fun summer activities over the next week or so, so if you’re looking for new ideas- we’ve got you covered 😉

It's not a race at all. ❤️

05/20/2020

One of our very own shows us how to draw a wrecking ball crane! Way to go, Charlie!

Give it a try and post your crane in the comments, Charlie would love to see your work!

The Special Needs Resource Foundation of San Diego Presents Smashy Town by Andrea Zimmerman and David Clemesha with a drawing tutorial by Charlie Allbritton....

04/20/2020

For all our moms, dads, and caregivers who’ve accepted the challenge that is social distance learning. Hang in there!

As a family who chose to homeschool our two older children, I can assure you that what we are doing right now is NOT homeschooling.
Homeschooling is a blessing. I don’t know what to call this thing we’re doing right now, but it’s not feeling like a blessing.
You see, homeschooling is a choice that a family makes when they are properly set up to spend the time and energy schooling their children at home.
Also, when homeschooling, the parent IS the teacher...which means the parent selects the curriculum and designs a schedule that works for the entire family.
During this pandemic, many parents are now being forced to work from home and simultaneously meet all the educational needs of their children...with little to no say in how things are being implemented.
This is hard.
This is NOT homeschooling.
This is EMERGENCY schooling. And it’s all we’ve got at the moment. But we need to stop calling it homeschooling, because it’s giving the concept of homeschooling a bad name.