Connections to Communication, Speech Therapy Services

05/16/2024

A day in the life of an SLP!
Integrated TherapyWorks, LLC

05/07/2024

Thank you for hosting sensory friendly performances!

SENSORY FRIENDLY PERFORMANCE!

We are delighted to announce a sensory friendly performance of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast! We invite neurodivergent individuals, people on the autism spectrum, family members, and caregivers on Wednesday, May 8 at 6:30PM (doors open at 5:30PM).

ALL sensory friendly performance tickets are complimentary, but tickets must be reserved in advance. Please call or email the Box Office at 406-728-7529 or patronservices@MCTinc.org.

At this performance, we are happy to offer:

☑️ open seating
☑️ quiet area in our lobby with pillows, blankets, a rocking chair, and children’s books
☑️ patrons can go in and out of the auditorium as needed
☑️ house lights will stay on
☑️ shortened run time of 1.5 hours with a 10 minute break

Please join us for this special evening, and please share with those who may benefit from this opportunity. ✨

📸: Vladi Media

02/23/2024

Quote of the day:
Kid: My great great grandma just had her birthday.
Me: Oh wow! How old is she?
Kid: I don’t know, I think like 40 or something! 😂

01/24/2024

REMINDER: Our Hamilton office will be offering free speech and language screenings this Friday from 9am-12pm! Molly and Madison would love to see you and your kids! Feel free to share!!

Integrated TherapyWorks in HAMILTON will be offering free speech and language screenings for children of all ages! Come see our Hamilton SLP’s, Madison Kurtz and Molly Forrest, to help answer questions about developmental milestones and discuss speech language delays. They will also be available to answer questions you might have about literacy challenges for any of your school aged kids. We love serving our community and are looking forward to seeing you Friday January 26!

01/11/2024

Integrated TherapyWorks in HAMILTON will be offering free speech and language screenings for children of all ages! Come see our Hamilton SLP’s, Madison Kurtz and Molly Forrest, to help answer questions about developmental milestones and discuss speech language delays. They will also be available to answer questions you might have about literacy challenges for any of your school aged kids. We love serving our community and are looking forward to seeing you Friday January 26!

01/08/2024

Connections to Communication will be doing free speech/language screenings in the Bitterroot valley! We have 4 experienced speech therapists that are willing to go to local daycares/preschools to offer screenings to help educate providers and families as well as offer services within the facility if needed and supported by family physician. We understand getting to appointments can be very difficult for working families! If you know of daycares/preschools anywhere from Florence to Darby that might be interested, please let us know and we will contact them to offer more information!

12/13/2023

What a great asset to our community!

Meet the newest member of our Transformative Health team, Rylie Layser, LCSW, CCTS-I.

Rylie is a Bitterroot Valley native focused on providing trauma-informed therapeutic care to children, teens and adults. Rylie earned both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Social Work at Utah State University. She has spent the last 7 years improving her abilities to meet the ever-changing needs of clients, especially those with SPMI (severe persistent mental illness) at both domestic violence crisis facilities and in private practice settings.

As a therapist, Rylie’s first goal is to build a solid foundation of trust through psychoeducation, emotional regulation, and modeling healthy communication in the client-therapist relationship.

Rylie is also a Certified Clinical Trauma Specialist (CCTS-I) and is able to help clients process how trauma/stress impacts the mind/body connection. Rylie is passionate about “practice what you preach” and regularly uses physical exercise and mindfulness practices to find balance and improve her own mental health. Her hobbies include rock climbing, fishing, crossfit, and spending time with her husband and two dogs.

We are so excited to have Rylie as part of our team and can’t wait to see the positive impact she’ll have with our patients!

09/07/2023

Expanding language is ALWAYS fun at Integrated TherapyWorks 🤩
This water table has been in the box since 2020 but when this little one spotted the packaged box tucked away and said ‘water table water beads’ that’s exactly what we did! Reward communication when possible! It creates confidence for our little friends to keep trying!!

If you or your friends are wondering if the children in your life are meeting developmental standards, reach out to us for free OT, PT and speech screenings. We love our community and are here to help!

08/23/2023

Use of themes are a wonderful way to target several goals AND keep a kiddos interest! Of course ‘beach’ week is one of my favorite themes 🏝️ 🐠 🐚

06/16/2023

Excited to finally share our new space in Stevensville with the community! Come see who we are and what we offer! We are excited to share some delicious treats from at this event! If you or anyone you know has been curious about ITW or looking for exceptional speech, occupational or physical therapy in the area, please stop by and say hi!

02/28/2023

7pm on Friday, March 24th. Hamilton Performing Art Center

This is exciting news! And free to the public.

01/02/2023

What an awesome opportunity by an amazing instructor! Share the news ☺️

Why Yoga for Teen Girls? I started doing yoga just after my teen years in my early 20s. I actually did a project on yoga and its benefits during Occupational Therapy school 25 years ago. Most people didn't even know the word "yoga" let alone what it was then. I was having some health issues and somehow I got my fiancé (now husband) and my dad (who happened to be working on that side of the state) to go with me to a yoga class in someone's home and later to an adult education class. Our teacher, Eve, was an elderly woman who was the sweetest soul and sometimes it was just the 3 of us and our teacher Eve our classes. We all felt so incredibly relaxed after an evening session and it truly helped us all manage our stressful lives of school and work. I sometimes wonder how yoga could have supported me through my teen years had I learned it earlier. Being a teen is hard on so many levels and it is really astonishing to me how many kids are identifying with anxiety and stress now. I don't think I could have relayed to anyone what anxiety was as a teen, but I think of some of the most stressful situations and wonder if I could have utilized the benefits then. Throughout the past 25+ years, I have worked with adults, kids and teens through the lens of occupational therapy and yoga therapy. I have watched many girls in my yoga/social girls' groups develop body awareness, gain confidence, learn breathing techniques to help with anxiety and sleep. The stress in the world isn't going to go away, but we can learn ways to manage it better and ease the burden of challenging moments. We can become kinder to ourselves and others and yoga is a great practice that can be done anywhere and at anytime, although learning with others and creating a supportive learning group can help us to connect to ourselves and to others.
Yoga for Teen Girls is starting this February, Tuesdays from 4:15-5:15. A 30-60 minute individual intake ($50) is required prior to the first class unless you are a current yoga or occupation therapy client at Aspen Grove Therapy & Wellness Center, LLC. The girls' class is 4 sessions for $75. No yoga experience necessary. Please call me (Karen Oberg, OTR/L, IAYT) at 406-239-5820 to schedule an intake, register or ask any question.

12/28/2022

Peace ✌️ Love 💕 Kindness ☺️. Wishing you all a Happy 2023 from all of us at ITW (south) !! 🥂🎆

11/29/2022

Season’s Greetings from ITW Stevensville!!

10/11/2022

A new study explored whether adherence to American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines for diet and physical activity had any relationship with toddlers' ability to remember, plan, pay attention, shift between tasks and regulate their own thoughts and behavior, a suite of skills known as executive func...

10/07/2022

Ike & Tess Warner (ITW). They are “partnering in wellness”. Go check them out at the Stevensville Scarecrow Festival this weekend!!

09/26/2022

Buddy Walk 2021 and 2022! One of my favorite community events of the year ❤️

09/01/2022

Happy September 1st from all of us at Connections to Communication, Speech Therapy Services and Sage Hill Therapy! Wishing everyone a successful transition into fall and all the crazy scheduling that goes along with it! .k_brewer (and Samantha ☺️)

08/23/2022

New office views 🥰

07/31/2022

Exciting things are ahead!! Stay tuned…🤩

06/25/2022

Special thanks to this awesome crew for assembling 500 sensory kits to go into our community 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Heartism Community Center, Bitterroot Arts for Autism

02/09/2022

Matching, naming/identifying colors, following directions, oh ya and HAVING FUN 🤩🐍 🧩

01/13/2022

Beads earned while targeting articulation are then used to address language skills by categorizing and sequencing patterns! Motivating and functional!

01/07/2022

See the faces of our talented therapists and peek at our Missoula and Stevensville offices.

12/22/2021

It’s all fun and games! Just kidding, but we love to make our clients feel that way. Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Safe New Year!

07/17/2021

A great opportunity for many families. Please share with families that are in any of these 3 communities that might be interested!

In case you missed it, private after-hours waterpark rentals in three Montana communities for families with disabilities! An evening in the pools and on the slides in the company of other families who understand the challenges ♥ Register in advance using the links below:

Great Falls July 20th: register now at
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/161172732983

Helena August 1st: register now at
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/161253157535

Missoula August 8th: register now at
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/161254571765

07/17/2021

Hello friends and family! As most of you know, I’ve been an SLP for 10 years now and I love it!! I’ve never created a business page nor advertised, but I’m expanding my business this fall. I have an incredible speech aide assisting Connections to Communication, and I’ve been able to have some amazing graduate students. In August, I will be bringing on another speech therapist and we would love to stay connected through this awesome social media network/community and share ideas and information that might be helpful to all of you! Thank you for your support! If you have had a positive experience with me, my business or any other speech therapist, occupational therapist, physical therapist, or related service provider, PLEASE share on this page. Knowledge is power! And kind, happy people make the world go around! Have a safe and fun weekend!
(More to come!!)

Cheers 🍻 🥳!
~Kate

07/16/2021