Helpful Info

As of March 2026, this practice participates with these payors:
NJ DDD (for adults with self-directed budgets)
BCBS NJ Horizon United Healthcare NJ Aetna NJ CIGNA

Payment is due at the time of services if not verified for coverage in advance.

A “superbill” or invoice with codes is available to submit to insurance for out-of network PPO plans.

Have your Support Coordination Agency or DSP Agency reach out and
set up your adult’s NJ DDD Budget to fund therapy with this practice.
At this time, this practice does not participate with DDD PerformCare.
Medicaid: limited availability - request from Laura, case by case.
Foster and former foster children will never have to pay out of pocket for services in this practice.

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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