Welcome to Bright Stars Pediatric Speech Therapy, Inc.
Offering assessments, individual & group speech therapy via teletherapy, in our office, your home or select local preschools!
If your child is available for the mornings or early afternoons, we may have availability to work with your child. But first, let's talk and see what the next steps should be. We are here to help! We offer a no-charge, no-obligation informal 15-minute consultation about your child if we have a possible opening to offer that works with your schedule.
This is a limited-time offer for November only!
Email us at office@brightstarsspeech.com to schedule.
At Bright Stars Speech, we use a child-centered, multisensory approach. What does that mean? Patti Hamaguchi (Founder/Executive Director) and Kristen White (Director) have created a therapeutic style that is featured in an upcoming book and was presented at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association's Convention in Nov. 2025.
The core principles of this approach are the importance of the bond and rapport between the therapist and the child--built on trust and collaboration. It is a play-based approach that is eclectic--pulling strategies and ideas from an extensive variety of models, resources and frameworks and individualized for each child's unique needs. Rather than just "modeling", we incorporate multisensory strategies that build on the child's strengths and incorporate their interests. It is appropriate for all children, but is especially useful for autistic children.
It is a neuro-affirming approach and is the subject of our upcoming book, "A Child-Centered & Multi-Sensory Approach:
Guiding Principles to Support the Development of Speech, Language, & Social Communication in Autistic Children"
(And Other Neurodivergent Learners Too!) which will be published by Academic Therapy Publications in late spring
2026.
A big thank you to Maayan Glaser-Koren, educational therapist, for hosting this podcast on her Empower Exceptional Minds program. Guest for this episode was Patti Hamaguchi, our Executive Director, who spoke about auditory processing disorders.
The renowned Canadian Hanen Program has been helping parents since 1976. Specially designed to give you step-by-step instructions as to how to help your speech-delayed child, you will learn with other parents in the comfort of your home via Zoom, how to help your child engage, talk anplay! Next Hanen program will start in mid-January 2026.
Fun conversations, sharing experiences, talking about our hopes and our dreams, being understood.....is what we all want for our children. Our speech pathologists are here to help your child strengthen these skills!
We have 16 apps in the App Store, all designed to strengthen speech, language and listening skills and just recently published our Between the Lines apps in the Google Play store for Android devices like Chromebooks and phones. (More coming in 2025!) Families who receive services at our practice receive free app codes if we feel one of our apps would be beneficial for them to use at home.
