Decker Therapy Services, LLC

07/04/2025

06/24/2025

“Children gesture before they begin to speak and continue gesturing throughout the language learning process...children’s early gestures not only precede, but also predict, the onset of a number of linguistic milestones–nouns, nominal constituents, simple and complex sentences. Gesturing may thus play a causal role in language learning, and could do so in two ways: (1) Gesturing gives children the opportunity to practice expressing ideas in a preverbal form. (2) A child’s gestures offer parents and other communication partners insight into the child’s linguistic level, thus giving the partners the opportunity to provide input tailored to that level.”

Goldin-Meadow, S. How gesture helps children learn language. (2014)

Some caregivers worry that we are giving up on verbal language when we begin using gestures or other non-verbal forms of communication. But gestures can be an amazing stepping stone to words. They seem to help the concept of communication click for a child...If I do this, then I get what I want/need! Have you found this to be the true?

05/31/2025

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03/21/2025

03/05/2025

Special Needs planning is not only for your children, but for your entire family. You can benefit from ensuring your assets and finances are properly taken care of after your death.

02/04/2025

Decker Therapy Services is looking for a Clinical Director to assist with the operations of the company with the option to purchase the company upon the owner’s retirement in 2-5 years. Candidates must have at least 10 years in a related field of Speech Pathology, Occupational Therapy or Applied Behavior Analysis and a minimum of 5 years Management experience. Please message me if you are interested in applying for this position.