Welcome!
Providing clinic-based, telehealth, and potential in-home speech and language therapy services from birth to 18 in the Dayton, OH area.
Abigail Ryan-Coats, MA CCC-SLP
About Me
Welcome! I’m Abbie, an ASHA board certified speech-language pathologist dedicated to helping individuals of all ages improve their communication skills in the Dayton, Ohio area. I I offer personalized, neurodiverse affirming, and evidence-based in-home & clinic based therapy tailored to each client’s unique needs. My approach is compassionate, collaborative, individualized, and focused on building confidence through meaningful progress. If you're seeking support for your child, I’m here to guide you every step of the way!
Speech Therapy Services
Kiddo not talking yet? Joy provides services from birth to 5 years old for children with speech developmental delays or disabilities. Intervention may focus on play skills, attention, and speech/language skills.
Early Intervention
Expressive and Receptive Language
Expressive language therapy targets how to produce and use language such as expressing our wants and needs along with answering "wh" questions, using appropriate grammar, etc.
Receptive language therapy targets abilities to understand language such as understanding "wh" questions, categories, nouns, verbs, etc.
Autism and Social Skills
Therapy targets expressive/receptive language skills using spoken or alternative modes of communication (AAC). Social skills are also targeted to aid with building meaningful relationships with family, peers, and community members.
Articulation
Therapy focuses on articulation and phonological disorders. Specifically targeting how to say sounds correctly and demonstrating high intelligibility when speaking with communication partners.
Alternative Augmentative Communication (AAC)
Therapy is focused on building functional and meaningful communication skills using different modes of communication (AAC Devices).
Literacy
Providing services for phonological awareness skills and reading comprehension.
Gestalt Language Processing
Does your child often repeat back exactly what you say? Or, do they say phrases from their favorite TV shows or songs to communicate? This is know as Gestalt Language Processing or some may call it scripting or echolalia. Therapy for Gestalt Processors , focuses on supporting these individuals who learn language in chunks or "gestalts" rather than single words.
Inquire
Please provide some background information about your child and your specific concerns below in the message box! I will get back to you a soon as possible regarding next steps.
Feel free to directly contact me!
abbie@joy-speech-therapy.com
(513) -204-9388
Dayton, OH