Creative Speech Therapy Miami

16/07/2025

Creative speech therapy is now scheduling new patients for the Fall. We service pinecrest, Palmetto Bay, Cutler Bay, Goulds, Princeton areas.

20/01/2025

Hello Everyone! I think it’s time I reintroduce myself. 
My name is Gaby, the owner and founder of Creative Speech Therapy. 
I am a board certified and ASHA credentialed bilingual Speech and Language Pathologist. 
I began working as a Speech Language Pathologist at a Speech and Language center in Florida in 2009 where I gained experience working with children with speech and language delays as well as children with a variety of developmental and genetic disorders. Since then I have worked for a variety of pediatric and adult settings including schools, hospitals and homes where I evaluated and treated children and adults with a range of diagnoses. Throughout the years I have gained experience in diagnosing and treating a variety of developmental, acquired, and genetic disorders in both children and adults.
I am currently providing screenings, evaluations and treatment therapy for patients in their home or school setting. 
I have a passion for my profession and a desire to continue educating myself and applying new evidence based strategies to better support my patients, their families and those who support them. I love what I do 💜

23/08/2024

Servicing: Cutler Bay, Palmetto Bay, Pinecrest and Homestead areas.

12/06/2024

Exciting news! I am now accepting new patients! If you are concerned about your child’s communication or your own. I work with adults and children. Contact me to find out if I service your area.

12/05/2023

23/06/2022

How can you help your birth to 3 months old learn to communicate?

🌟talk as much as you can to your baby during the day. Respond to your baby’s attempt to communicate with you. Look at them when they make a sound, react to their sounds, imitate the sounds they make.

🌟teach them conversational turn taking skills. You can do this by talking to your baby. Talk, pause and wait for them to make a sound or smile. Talk again. This is how we take turns in conversation. Show them how it’s done.

🌟imitate your baby’s facial expressions and laughter.

🌟babies learn best by listening to you talk, sing and read.

From birth to toddler years the best thing you can do is talk A LOT to your child. That’s how they learn.

21/06/2022

Starting at birth you are given many opportunities to check your child’s hearing at home.

Often a hearing screening is given at birth however, over time things happen and develop that can affect your child’s ability to hear clearly which can then impact your child’s ability to imitate your modeled language effectively and appropriately.

Thats why I recommend to continue checking your child’s hearing at home.

✅does your child turn to noises or sounds around them?
✅does he/she look at you when you talk?
🛑pay attention to ear problems and infections.

The build up of fluids due to congestion/colds can cause hearing blockage. This happens often with those little ones who don’t know how to blow their nose. Make sure to suction them as often as possible.

Check with your doctor too if infections or other ear problems occur. There may be an underlining issue to address.

Your doctor may refer you to an audiologist. They specialize in the anatomy and functions of the ear.

04/06/2022

What counts as a word? Often after I describe to parents this answer they brighten up. It’s because they had no idea that their child actually had more words than they thought. It’s exciting to know this!🥰💜
🌟Word approximations such as “da” for dog, “ma” for more count as a word only if used consistently when communicating.
🌟Exclamatory words: Yay! Whoa! oh no! Uh oh! Boom! These are such fun words and also count as a word.
🌟Animal sounds: baaa, mooo, meow, bzzz
🌟Sign Language: more, eat, all done
🌟Words in other languages: si, yes, wi wi

25/05/2022

This is so sad and so scary for our own children and teachers….

20/05/2022

🧠Receptive language consists of understanding and comprehending what others are saying or what you’re reading. Those who have difficulties with understanding language may struggles with the following:
📍Answering questions
📍Following directions
📍Understanding stories
📍Reading comprehension
📍Understanding gestural meanings
📍Identifying pictures and objects

🗣Expressive language is how you express your wants and needs. This could be verbal or nonverbal communication. This is the ability of putting your thoughts into words and sentences that are grammatical correct and understood by others.

Those who have difficulties communicating their wants and needs may have an expressive language disorder.
Those who have difficulties expressing their wants and needs may struggle with the following:
📍Vocabulary
📍Asking questions
📍Naming objects
📍Making comments
📍Syntax (the order of words-grammar)
📍Semantics(word meaning)
📍Morphology (forms of words)
📍Using gestures
📍Using facial expressions

👫Pragmatic language refers to social communication skills. How we socialize with others verbally and nonverbally(eye contact, body language, facial expressions) and how appropriate your interactions are in the given situation.

Those who have difficulty with social language skills may struggle with the following:
📍Understanding body language
📍Staying on topic
📍Taking turns in conversations
📍Gestures
📍Understanding personal space
📍Facial expressions
📍Eye contact
📍Using humor
📍Using appropriate strategies for gaining attention
📍Using appropriate strategies for interrupting
📍Asking for help or offering help appropriately

18/05/2022

🗣Speech involves the way you create a sounds to make a word. Speech disorders include but are not limited to the following:
🔤Articulation-how words and sounds are produced
💭Fluency disorder: the flow and rhythm of speech (stuttering)
👄Voice disorder: oral or nasal cavity conditions. This affects airflow and the vibrations responsible for sound production. It can be due to swollen tonsils, cleft palates, vocal nodules and other structural condition that affect these body parts.

🍽Speech also includes feeding disorders such as problems with chewing, swallowing, coughing gagging and refusing foods.

18/05/2022

Happy Speech-Language Pathologist day! I’m so grateful for this profession and all my fellow SLPs. Thankful for all those IG SLPs I follow and all I have learned for you all! SLPs are changing the world, one word at a time 💜