New Helpful Info

  • Participation expected in 2025 with:
    Horizon BCBS NJ PPO
    Horizon BCBS NJ HMO (non-Medicaid)
    Aetna (non-Medicaid)
    CIGNA
    Ask for your plan
    NJ DDD Self-directed Budget     (through your Support Coordinator)
    All PPOs can be billed as out of network.
    Medicaid:     request from Laura, case by case.

  • For all others, payment is due at the time of services.

  • A “superbill” or invoice with codes is available for submit to insurance.

NEW: Billing & Insurance

Speech therapy may have special requirements or limits under your plan.
Stuttering therapy may not be covered.
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“Non-medical” service are paid by the client:
Examples: accent modification
special education advocacy, and
business communication.
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Public speaking and social skills are available for NJ DDD with self-direction.

What May Not Be Covered

FAQ: Where? What ages?

  • The Bergen County office is adjacent Paramus, Westwood, Ridgewood, and Hillsdale in Washington Township, NJ 07676. We are near Rockland County, NY, and Passaic and Essex Counties. Paterson and Bloomfield are 20 minutes away.

    Tele-therapy is available for most clients who reside in NJ.
    NY State tele-therapy will be offered when licensing allows.

  • Laura Wants therapy to make a difference. Let’s talk about where it should happen. Depending on schedule, Laura may be available to come to your home or workplace.

    Laura might come into a day habilitation. Consult your Support Coordinator. If the center offers private space, services can be in your budget or privately paid.

  • The confident parent who helps their child 5 minutes a day a few days a week in real situations will be effective. Tele-therapy should help parents work better with their children in their home. On “Zoom,” you are hands-on with your child. You learn helpful words to say and ways to show things.

    It’s communication support: doing laundry, at dinner, with grandma, playing with the dog, or dancing in the living room.

    With tele-therapy, frequent short sessions are possible, too. Short and frequent can be more effective than the same time delivered in one shot.

  • Laura has worked with ages 1 to 22, 32 42, 52. or even 82. For people with developmental disabilities or language issues, therapy can be helpful at any age. For children who are struggling to communicate, no child is too young.

FAQs: What types of therapy?

  • The process looks at your needs. That includes making or confirming a speech-language diagnosis, if you do not have a current assessment.

  • The confident parent who helps their child 5 minutes a day a few days a week in real situations will be effective. Tele-therapy should help parents work better with their children in their home. On “Zoom,” you are hands-on with your child. You learn helpful words to say and ways to show things.

    It’s communication support: doing laundry, at dinner, with grandma, playing with the dog, or dancing in the living room.

    With tele-therapy, frequent short sessions are possible, too. Short and frequent can be more effective than the same time delivered in one shot.

  • Absolutely, they deserve attention. Interaction with infants is critical. Oral motor issues can occur in the transition to solid food. Babies and children can be fussy eaters, and desensitization can help.
    Note: I do not claim competence in nutrition.

  • In a word, no, it will not. Research has shown this, but it’s common sense, too. You use lots of ways to communicate, every day. You talk because for you, speech is easy, portable, and doesn’t require tools. When you can’t talk to someone because they aren’t in the room, you email. You wave if they’re down the block, and get up close if they aren’t paying attention. You use Total Communication!

  • No, I paid for Prompt! for my son, with zero results. I prefer DTTC, a parent-friendly and free, well-researched system. DTTC is Direct Temporal and Tactile Cueing. It is free, available to schools and parents. Prompt is expensive, taught only in person, and excludes parents.

  • The Prompt Institute is unfriendly to parents. Their tactile cues are copyrighted and too expensive for schools. The Institute tells speech therapists to show a parent only one or 2 “sounds.” But a child’s name has at least 3 or 4 sounds. Meanwhile, speech therapists pay a lot of money to the Prompt Institute.
    My son enjoyed Prompt therapy, but he would have liked DTTC or Cued Speech, too.

    Prompt uses a consistent set of cues. So does DTTC. Your school therapist will not be sent to Prompt classes. They’re expensive and in-person. Instead, she could learn DTTC at home for free over the summer.

    Meanwhile DTTC (Direct Temporal and Tactile Cueing) trainings are free, online, available to parents and schools, and demonstrated through research.

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