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1139 Prospect Avenue, Brooklyn

4.9 56 reviews

  • Avatar Emily Matles ★★★★★ a week ago
    We would highly recommend Ally! Our son always asks about her, so very thankful to Brooklyn Letters for introducing us.
    ~ Emily, mom of Brooklyn 2 year old
  • Avatar T Ainsley ★★★★★ 5 months ago
    I cannot express how grateful and rewarding my experience with Brooklyn Letters has been. Her tutor Ms. Daria is so knowledgeable, amazing, kind and awesome. My daughter has made so much progress in Literacy and Math and it's all … More thanks to Ms. Daria. I know my daughter is sad that she can no longer work with Ms. Daria, as she looked forward to their sessions every week. Thank you again!
  • Avatar Natalie Levon ★★★★★ 4 months ago
    Nicole has been an amazing therapist!! She played a tremendous role in our daughter’s speech progress and overall development. She has come such a long way and we are so happy with the therapy she received!
  • Avatar Colin Peters ★★★★★ 6 months ago
    We could not be happier with the services Valerie provided! She is very thoughtful and knowledgeable and provided significant guidance to support our daughter's speech development outside of our scheduled sessions. She established … More a great working relationship with her, and she will definitely be missed! Your business model is amazing and it was an absolute pleasure working with Valerie. I've referred your organization and Valerie to the Executive Director of our daughter's school and friends/colleagues who are in need of speech therapy services.
  • Avatar Lil Amatore ★★★★★ 7 months ago
    Christina was absolutely wonderful. She went out of her way to win my son over and it worked. He looked forward to her visits and his speech improved so much under her care. She was super flexible and it’s clear she truly cares. We adore … More Christina and we’re going to miss her. Almost sad he improved so much! She’s simply amazing and we can’t say enough how great she is. I would recommend her services to anyone and everyone, without hesitation. Thank you so much for connecting us with her!
  • Avatar Heather Liljengren ★★★★★ a year ago
    We cannot say enough good things about Effie, the ASL teacher, who was so engaged and effective with our 2 year old daughter from the very first session! Effie gladly included our whole family in the sessions! Her expertise and fantastic … More personality gave our daughter a way to communicate that she was so desperately seeking. The coordinators at Brooklyn Letters were so helpful and communicative…I would highly recommend their services!
  • Avatar Brigid Bower ★★★★★ 11 months ago
    Samantha Dalmas was fantastic! We saw her for a feeding therapy evaluation and while she doesn’t think my daughter needs more feeding therapy sessions at this time, but she gave me lots of tips to try. If my daughter's doctors want … More to see more progress at her next appointment, I wouldn’t hesitate to reach out to Samantha again.
  • Avatar Duygu Başaran ★★★★★ 11 months ago
    Brooklyn Letters was recommended to me through a friend's speech therapist friend in NJ. The articulation evaluation for my daughter went well. We were pleased with Kristin's services.
  • Avatar Kelley Peters-Patel ★★★★★ a year ago
    Melissa was wonderful. Our daughter warmed to her immediately and by the time she left, had already started "practicing" some of the techniques Melissa had shown her. I will not hesitate at all to reach out to Melissa again, should … More the need arise.
  • Avatar R Elmore ★★★★★ a year ago
    Aileen was INCREDIBLY helpful to us, both in assessing possible origins of my grandson's food aversions, as well as informing us of various available interventions to consider.
    I can’t thank you and Brooklyn Letters enough for connecting
    … More us with Aileen. In all our feeding therapy journey we have not gotten anything near the kind of benefit that we did from her. Her knowledge, professionalism, and responsiveness have put us on the path of progress with my grandson and has also made us feel genuinely well cared for.
  • Avatar Christine Weiher ★★★★★ 2 years ago
    We were amazed with Allison! She met my son at 2 1/2 years old, not speaking much at all, and over a computer, and she was able to develop a bond and friendship, so much so that he would look forward to his weekly computer time with Allison. … More I was not sure how the speech therapy would go- but we are so happy that we tried it out and continued. It allowed my son to gain confidence in his speech, make a new friend :), and also give him the skills and a bit of understanding of how to shape his mouth or where to place his tongue to make the proper sounds. We were extremely happy with Allison- she was fantastic to work with.
  • Avatar Andrea Saffady ★★★★★ 2 years ago
    My sessions with Karen have been extremely helpful. My speech has improved tremendously. In fact, I just finished 2 hours of conducting interviews with a consulting client via MS Teams and I have an upcoming conference call. Both my … More neurologist and neurosurgeon remarked about how good my speech is. Much of the day it is perfect, although I still have some rough spots when I get tired or speak too quickly. One of my granddaughters is a speech pathology student at Ithaca College. She sat in on 2 sessions while she was home for winter break, and she was very impressed with Karen.
  • Avatar Jacob B ★★★★★ 4 years ago
    We were delighted with Christie. First, and most importantly, our son made great strides under her guidance. So great, that we felt he no longer needed help! She was incredibly patient and kind with him and our son really responded to … More her. Christie was also great with me and my wife. She provided thorough and informative updates on our son's progress and which exercises she was using with him, so we could reinforce what she was teaching him. All in all, we had a fabulous experience with Christie and would highly recommend her.
  • Avatar Jessica C ★★★★★ a year ago
    Theo was wonderful and his work with my son has produced some progress. I am grateful for the services Theo provided.
  • Avatar Melissa Stevens ★★★★★ 2 years ago
    Highly recommend Jill. She is a total pleasure to work with. After a few months working with Jill, my son is reading above grade level and LOVES to read. Mission accomplished!
  • Avatar Demet Evren ★★★★★ 2 years ago
    Paige was great and we had been really happy with her. I would highly recommend her! I recommend Brooklyn Letters to whomever asks for a speech therapist.
  • Avatar Jeizel Rosenthal ★★★★★ 2 years ago
    Isabel was WONDERFUL and our son absolutely adored her, and he is making great progress with his reading and writing.
  • Avatar Lesley Duval ★★★★★ 3 years ago
    Theo was fantastic with our 4yo son. We were very worried that his progress would fall off when we had to switch to remote sessions, but Theo kept our son happy and engaged through the screen. Highly highly recommend!
  • Avatar Samantha Packard ★★★★★ 3 years ago
    We've been working with Theo from Brooklyn Letters for close to 4 months now and the results are apparent; our daughter has vastly improved her speech in a relatively short amount of time. We make "Theo Day" a celebration … More in our house with pancakes for breakfast, and the enthusiasm is matched in the sessions. Theo is fun, patient, professional, and caring, and he gives us the tools to take the lessons beyond the session. Thank you Theo, and Brooklyn Letters, for helping our daughter express herself.
  • Avatar Travis Ricca ★★★★★ 3 years ago
    I worked with Alina to enhance my pronunciation, tone, and pacing while communicating socially and in a work environment. She was great to work with and clear about goals and learning objectives. The improvement from day 1 has been tremendous! … More
  • Avatar Enrico Bermudez ★★★★★ 3 years ago
    Cathy has been excellent with us and our son. We will sorely miss her. He has improved significantly with Cathy’s help. Cathy was a true partner with us, especially as we pursued additional help through our son’s school system.
  • Avatar Kayne Elisabeth Wilk ★★★★★ 4 years ago
    We really loved working with Alina, she is so fantastic. Patient yet firm, and determined the best course of action very clearly and succintly for us. And it all transitioned so well to Zoom as well. I will definitely be back in touch for … More services for our other child after summer break!
  • Avatar Jen S ★★★★★ 4 years ago
    Vera was amazing! My 11 yo daughter made progress so quickly and really looked forward to her sessions. She was kept motivated and engaged.
  • Avatar susie tofte ★★★★★ 3 years ago
    The work that Allison P. did with our daughter over the years has been invaluable to us. Our daughter had such a good relationship with Allison, and it allowed them to work really well together - even remotely these past 6 months. This … More year, Allison went above and beyond by helping us throughout the neuropsych eval we did, trying to re-open our daughter's IEP at her school, and eventually landing her at our chosen school. She was in contact with our daughter's teachers, with the neuropsychologist, and made herself available as a reference to speak on behalf of our daughter's learning differences.
    Allison stopped by our house last week to give our daughter cupcakes and say goodbye, and I literally cried with appreciation for what an amazing speech therapist she has been. She has been our daughter's biggest champion. The new families that she will work with this year are lucky to have her.
  • Avatar Alicia Perez-Katz ★★★★★ 4 years ago
    Sydney was great! Our son was sad to end his sessions with her, which says a lot. We appreciated her honest assessment of his skill level, and he now has materials to self monitor and practice. Thank you!
  • Avatar Kristin Ames ★★★★★ 4 years ago
    Our experience with Theo was terrific. Theo was great with my son. He developed a positive relationship with him based on sincerity, respect, trust and a deep personal connection. In their lessons, Theo was encouraging, creative and kind. … More He helped our son understand how to differentiate the sounds he made when he spoke, and gave him great exercises to practice every week between lessons. Our son was sorry to have the lessons come to an end, but recognized that Theo had helped him as much as possible and it was time for him to stop. Theo explained to him (and us) how to keep working to get the last 5%, and encouraged him to keep working on the exercises on his own. I have recommended Theo to another parent who noticed my son's improvement and inquired for her own son.
    We are all grateful to have gotten to know Theo, and we greatly appreciate all the work he did to help our son.
  • Avatar Aisha Holder ★★★★★ 4 years ago
    "I have nothing but wonderful things to say about Michelle Macroy-Higgins. We are extremely pleased with her work with our daughter. I was so grateful for my daughter to have a speech therapist who is a researcher (specialty in late … More talkers), graduate professor and practitioner. Her expertise was clearly evident in our conversations and work with our daughter. She was very responsive to my questions and often sent articles and other materials about language development that I found helpful. Thankfully, my daughter's speech improved tremendously. Michelle developed such a warm relationship with my daughter. My daughter was always excited to see Michelle and would greet her at the door with a big hug. Lastly, I would add that Michelle always demonstrated empathy with me as a mother who was initially worried about her daughter's language development. I could go on and on about how pleased we were with Michelle's work."
  • Avatar Andrea Peartree ★★★★★ 4 years ago
    Theo is a wonderful Clinton Hill speech therapist. We were really pleased with him. Our son showed drastic improvement, not only in his speech but in his confidence.
  • Avatar mario costa ★★★★★ 4 years ago
    Alexa has been an enthusiastic, reliable, well prepared and caring teacher for our 6 year old daughter. She has been able to improve and increase our daughter's confidence lesson by lesson with patience and competence; through varied … More and productive didactic practice. Alexa has engaged our daughter in several activities that always kept her motivated and eager to learn literacy. My wife and I, both of us are educators, feel so fortunate to have had the opportunity to observe Alexa's pedagogical skills. Alexa has had a big impact on our daughter literacy growth. Thank you Brooklyn Letters!
  • Avatar Lily Alt ★★★★★ 4 years ago
    We were absolutely DELIGHTED with Marsha's services. She was wonderful. We found her to be kind, fun, engaging, very knowledgeable. She provided us with clear instructions and additional written handouts each week. She engaged our … More son with different techniques and toys, and showed us how to use her techniques when we were interacting with him. I actually just texted her on Saturday - Our son finally said "more" - one of the target words we had been working on with her. It was a total joy to hear, and I had to share it with her - she wrote back immediately to congratulate us. I am so appreciative of her expertise, and wish we could have seen her for longer. I recommended her to another family in our neighborhood who is looking for a speech therapist.

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In-Home Private Pediatric Speech Therapy in Queens, NYC

Queens Nyc Speech Language Therapy

Queens, NYC Pediatric Speech-Language Therapy

Queens Nyc Speech Language Therapy
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Private, In-Home Queens NYC Speech-Language Therapy

If your child is struggling to find their words, communicate clearly, follow directions, participate in conversations, or make themselves understood, you want answers — and you do not want to wait months to get help.

Brooklyn Letters provides private pediatric speech-language therapy in Queens, NYC, including in-home speech therapy, speech-language evaluations, parent coaching, and individualized support from licensed pediatric speech-language pathologists. Families often contact us when they are looking for a private speech therapist, home visit SLP, cash pay speech therapy, out-of-network speech therapy, or at-home speech therapy in Queens with no insurance delays.

Our Queens speech-language pathologists support toddlers, preschoolers, school-aged children, and teens with communication needs related to expressive language, receptive language, pragmatic language, social communication, articulation, phonological disorders, pronunciation, enunciation, oral motor speech therapy when clinically appropriate, language processing, late talkers, and reading comprehension.

Whether your toddler is not talking yet, your child has a lisp, your child can’t say “R,” or your child struggles with conversation, speech clarity, comprehension, or communication confidence, we match your family with a pediatric SLP who can provide targeted, compassionate, in-home support.

Private-Pay Speech Therapy Without Insurance Delays

Many families come to Brooklyn Letters because they do not want their child’s care delayed by insurance restrictions, provider waitlists, or clinic availability. Our private-pay model allows families to begin care more quickly and receive therapy based on the child’s actual needs, not a narrow insurance authorization.

Families searching for no insurance speech therapy, private speech therapist Queens, home visit SLP Queens, cash pay speech therapy, superbill provider, or out-of-network speech-language therapy often choose Brooklyn Letters because they want flexible, individualized support.

We do not require families to use insurance to begin services. If your family has out-of-network benefits, we can provide documentation or superbills when appropriate so you may submit claims directly to your insurance company. This allows your child to begin a speech-language evaluation or therapy without waiting for insurance approval, authorization, or a limited provider list.

Why Choose In-Home Pediatric Speech Therapy in Queens?

When a child is experiencing a speech or language delay, months on a waitlist can feel like a lifetime. Early communication skills grow quickly, and many parents want support before frustration, avoidance, or academic concerns become more serious.

Our in-home pediatric speech therapy model offers several advantages:

  • Faster access to care: Families can often begin services without the long delays common in clinic-based or insurance-based systems.
  • Therapy in your child’s natural environment: Children often communicate differently at home than they do in an office. Home-based therapy allows the SLP to work within your child’s real routines, toys, books, meals, play, and family interactions.
  • Parent coaching built into sessions: Parents and caregivers learn how to support communication during everyday routines, not just during therapy time.
  • Flexible support for busy families: In-home support removes the stress of commuting across Queens for a weekly appointment.
  • Individualized therapy: Sessions can target your child’s specific needs, including articulation, expressive language, receptive language, pragmatic language, social communication, language processing, phonological disorders, or speech clarity.

Speech-Language Evaluations in Queens

A speech-language evaluation helps identify your child’s communication strengths, challenges, and therapy needs. Our pediatric speech-language pathologists can assess areas such as:

  • Expressive language
  • Receptive language
  • Articulation
  • Speech sound development
  • Phonological disorders
  • Pronunciation and enunciation
  • Pragmatic language
  • Social communication
  • Conversational skills
  • Language processing
  • Oral motor and motor speech concerns when clinically indicated
  • Reading comprehension and language-based academic needs

A speech-language evaluation may be helpful if your child is not using many words, is hard to understand, has difficulty answering questions, struggles to follow directions, has trouble participating in conversations, or shows frustration when trying to communicate. After the evaluation, we explain what we are seeing in clear language and help your family understand the next steps. If therapy is recommended, we match your child with a Queens-based pediatric SLP who can provide targeted in-home support.

Pediatric Speech-Language Therapy for Communication, Clarity, and Confidence

Our Queens-based pediatric speech-language therapy services support children with a wide range of communication needs. Some children need help finding words, combining words into sentences, understanding directions, or answering questions. Others speak often but are difficult to understand because of articulation, speech sound, or phonological patterns. We also support children who struggle more subtly with conversational skills, pragmatic language, social communication, communication confidence, topic maintenance, perspective-taking, or peer interactions.

Therapy may focus on helping your child:

  • Use more words, phrases, and sentences
  • Improve expressive language
  • Strengthen receptive language
  • Follow directions and understand questions
  • Improve pronunciation and enunciation
  • Reduce speech sound errors
  • Improve articulation and clarity
  • Address phonological disorders
  • Strengthen language processing
  • Build conversational skills
  • Improve pragmatic language and social communication
  • Increase confidence when speaking with adults and peers
  • Support reading comprehension when language weaknesses affect academic performance
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What Parents Are Saying About Our Therapists

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Kate is a fantastic therapist and teacher and I highly recommend her services.
Kate worked with my 7-year-old son for a period of about 6 months, helping him not only with speech therapy but also with phonics and writing. During his time with Kate, he improved his speech annunciation, gained confidence and endurance in writing, and improved his skills in phonics. She always walked in with a huge smile on her face and brought an amazing energy to their session. Kate did a great job guiding a child who doesn’t like to sit still through an hour-long lesson, always ending with a game or a fun activity. My little guy looked forward to his time spent with Kate and never complained that she was coming, which is a huge help to a parent. She was always punctual and super professional.

Jennifer, mother of Joseph
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We were amazed with Allison!
She met my son at 2 1/2 years old, not speaking much at all, and over a computer, and she was able to develop a bond and friendship, so much so that he would look forward to his weekly computer time with Allison. I was not sure how the speech therapy would go- but we are so happy that we tried it out and continued. It allowed my son to gain confidence in his speech, make a new friend :), and also give him the skills and a bit of understanding of how to shape his mouth or where to place his tongue to make the proper sounds. We were extremely happy with Allison- she was fantastic to work with.

Christine W.
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I recently worked with Queens Letters to find a speech therapist and it was an overall positive experience.
BL was very helpful in getting an appropriate placement who schedule and expertise matched our family’s needs. It was great working with the therapist and we saw a great deal of improvement in a short amount of time and learned a great deal about how to support with continued progress outside of sessions.

Nicole F.
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I also want to thank Queens Letters generally for being such a great resource/business!
I want to thank you so very much for introducing us to Amy and for including her in the Queens Letters network. When we contacted Queens Letters we were completely unsure of what our daughter needed in terms of speech therapy, or what we could achieve under the very stressful circumstance of having only about eight weeks prior to moving abroad during which to undertake any therapy at all. Amy helped us to strategize both pre-and post-evaluation and was practical, efficient, and communicative throughout the process of initiating and, later, undertaking, the speech therapy for our five-year-old. Having Amy come to our home twice a week was the perfect solution for us it definitely put my daughter at ease and certainly made our lives infinitely easier; Amy was always on time and ready to jump right in. Our daughter warmed to Amy immediately (not surprisingly, given Amy’s warm personality and engaging demeanor) and looked forward to her sessions every week, constantly asking “Is it an Amy day?”. Within one or two sessions our daughter was making sounds she had never made before, and she continues to make amazing progress. I can’t praise Amy’s work highly enough and only wish we were remaining in the city so our daughter could continue therapy with her!

Leah Clarkson
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Rachel is doing amazing work with Savir. Savir’s speech and vocab has improved significantly since Rachel started.

Faisal
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Late Talker Home Support in Queens

Speech Language Therapy in New York

Parents often contact us because they are wondering: “Should my toddler be talking more?” or “Why is my child pointing, crying, or pulling my hand instead of using words?”

Our late talker home support in Queens is designed for toddlers and young children who are slow to develop spoken language. We support children who may have limited vocabulary, few word combinations, difficulty imitating words, or frustration when trying to communicate. Therapy for late talkers may include play-based expressive language strategies, parent coaching, modeling, repetition, expansion, and routines that help your child use more words throughout the day. We look at the whole child, including gestures, comprehension, social engagement, play skills, and communication attempts.

Expressive and Receptive Language Therapy

Some children know what they want to say but cannot organize their thoughts into clear words or sentences. Others have difficulty understanding spoken language, following directions, answering questions, or processing what they hear.

Our Queens speech-language pathologists support both expressive language and receptive language. Expressive language therapy may target vocabulary, sentence structure, grammar, storytelling, word retrieval, explaining ideas, and answering questions. Receptive language therapy may target following directions, understanding concepts, processing spoken information, listening comprehension, and understanding questions.

Many children need support in both areas, especially when language weaknesses affect school participation, reading comprehension, writing, or peer communication.

Articulation, Pronunciation, Enunciation, and Speech Clarity

If your child is difficult to understand, leaves out sounds, substitutes one sound for another, has a lisp, or can’t say “R,” articulation therapy may help.

Parents often contact us with concerns such as:

  • “My child has a lisp.”
  • “My child can’t say R.”
  • “My child’s speech is hard to understand.”
  • “My child mispronounces words.”
  • “My child sounds younger than their age.”
  • “Teachers and relatives have trouble understanding my child.”

Our pediatric SLPs can evaluate your child’s speech sound system and determine whether the issue involves articulation, phonological patterns, motor speech, or another speech-language need. Therapy is individualized so your child can improve clarity in words, sentences, conversation, school, and everyday communication.

Phonological Disorder Treatment in Queens

Speech Language Therapy in New York

Some children can make individual speech sounds but use patterns that make their speech difficult to understand. For example, a child may consistently replace back sounds with front sounds, leave off final consonants, simplify longer words, or use patterns that are no longer expected for their age. These patterns may indicate a phonological disorder. Our Queens pediatric speech-language pathologists use targeted therapy approaches to help children reorganize their speech sound system and improve overall intelligibility. The goal is not just to practice one sound in isolation. The goal is to help your child become easier to understand in real conversation with family members, teachers, classmates, and peers.

Pragmatic Language, Social Communication, and Conversational Skills

Some children have strong vocabulary and clear speech but still struggle with social communication. They may have difficulty starting conversations, staying on topic, reading social cues, asking questions, answering questions, taking turns, repairing communication breakdowns, or adjusting language based on the listener. Our SLPs support children with pragmatic language, social communication, conversational skills, and communication confidence.

Therapy may focus on:

  • Starting and maintaining conversations
  • Asking and answering questions
  • Staying on topic
  • Taking conversational turns
  • Understanding nonverbal communication
  • Making comments that connect to others
  • Perspective-taking
  • Flexible language use
  • Peer communication
  • Classroom participation
  • Confidence in social and academic settings

This type of therapy can be helpful for children who struggle during playdates, group work, classroom discussion, recess, peer interactions, or family conversations.

Meet our CEO
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With over 20 years of experience serving families across New York City, Craig Selinger is a New York State licensed speech-language therapist and educational specialist who serves as the CEO of Brooklyn Letters. His background in Communicative Disorders and childhood development informs the clinical standards and training that guide Queens Letters’ in-home speech therapy in Queens.

Craig’s professional work spans both school and home settings, where he has built long-term partnerships with families and students across developmental profiles. His approach emphasizes individualized planning, practical strategies, and collaboration with caregivers and educators to support measurable communication growth.

Under Craig’s leadership, Brooklyn Letters has become a respected provider of speech-language therapy, multisensory literacy, and math support throughout the NYC metro area. He has presented at institutions including the Everyone Reading Conference, Mount Sinai Health System, NYU Langone Health, and Bard High School Early College Queens. His work is also connected to organizations such as the YMCA of Greater New York and the Educational Alliance, reflecting strong ties to the NYC educational and nonprofit community.

Craig has been interviewed by NBC News, The Atlantic, New York Magazine, and PIX11 News. Brooklyn Letters has also been referenced by the New York Times and Yahoo.com. His research has been published in the Journal of Brain Research, and his expertise has been featured in outlets such as Healthline, NYMetro Parents, Momtastic, Psych Central, and About.com.

In response to pandemic-related educational challenges, Craig hosted the Craig Selinger Podcast, interviewing professionals in education, therapy, and medicine to provide families with accessible, research-informed guidance.

Language Processing and Reading Comprehension Support

Speech-language therapy is not only for pronunciation or early talking. Many school-aged children need support with language processing, listening comprehension, vocabulary, sentence comprehension, inferencing, narrative language, and reading comprehension. A child may be able to decode words but still struggle to understand what they read. Other children have difficulty following multi-step directions, answering “why” and “how” questions, retelling stories, understanding classroom language, or organizing verbal explanations.

Our pediatric SLPs can support the oral language skills that underlie reading comprehension, writing, classroom participation, and academic confidence.

Parent Coaching and Home Practice

Speech Language Therapy in New York

Parents and caregivers are essential partners in speech-language therapy. During home visits, our SLPs show families how to support communication during everyday routines.

This may include:

  • Mealtime
  • Bath time
  • Book reading
  • Play
  • Getting dressed
  • Walks around the neighborhood
  • Homework routines
  • Sibling interactions
  • Bedtime routines

Parent coaching helps therapy carry over beyond the session. Instead of practicing communication only once or twice a week, your child receives natural support throughout the week in the moments when communication actually happens.

Queens, NYC Neighborhoods We Serve

Brooklyn Letters provides in-home pediatric speech therapy, speech-language evaluations, and home visit SLP services throughout Queens, NYC.

We serve families in:

Astoria, Auburndale, Bayside, Bayswater, Beechhurst, Belle Harbor, Bellerose, Breezy Point, Briarwood, Cambria Heights, College Point, Corona, Douglaston, East Elmhurst, Edgemere, Elmhurst, Far Rockaway, Floral Park, Flushing, Forest Hills, Forest Park, Fresh Meadows, Glendale, Hamilton Beach, Hillcrest, Hollis, Hollis Hills, Holliswood, Howard Beach, Hunters Point, Jackson Heights, Jamaica, Jamaica Estates, Jamaica Hills, Kew Gardens, Kew Gardens Hills, Laurelton, Lefrak City, Lindenwood, Little Neck, Long Island City, Malba, Maspeth, Meadowmere, Middle Village, Neponsit, North Corona, Oakland Gardens, Ozone Park, Pomonok, Queens Village, Rego Park, Richmond Hill, Ridgewood, Rockaway Park, Rosedale, Roxbury, South Jamaica, South Ozone Park, Springfield Gardens, Steinway, Sunnyside, Utopia, Whitestone, Willets Point, Woodhaven, and Woodside.

If your neighborhood is not listed, contact us. We may still be able to match your family with a Queens-based pediatric speech-language pathologist or provide remote speech-language therapy when appropriate.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. Do you provide in-home speech therapy in Queens?
Yes. Brooklyn Letters provides in-home pediatric speech therapy and speech-language evaluations throughout Queens, NYC. Our speech-language pathologists can work with children at home, and in some cases, at daycare, preschool, or school when appropriate.

2. Are your services private-pay or insurance-based?
Brooklyn Letters is a private-pay provider. Families often choose us when they are looking for no-insurance speech therapy, cash pay speech therapy, a private speech therapist, a home visit SLP, a superbill provider, or out-of-network speech therapy. When appropriate, we can provide superbills or documentation so families may submit claims directly to their insurance company if they have out-of-network benefits.

3. Can you help if my child has a lisp?
Yes. Our pediatric SLPs work with children who have lisps and other articulation concerns. Therapy focuses on helping your child produce sounds more clearly and carry those skills into words, sentences, conversation, and daily communication.

4. Can you help if my child can’t say “R”?
Yes. Difficulty saying “R” is a common reason families seek articulation therapy. Our SLPs can evaluate your child’s speech sound production and create a treatment plan to help improve “R” production when therapy is appropriate.

5. Do you work with late talkers?
Yes. We support late talkers and toddlers with expressive language delays. Therapy is play-based, family-centered, and designed to help your child use more words, combine words, and communicate more effectively during everyday routines.

6. Do you help with expressive and receptive language?
Yes. Expressive language therapy helps children use words, sentences, grammar, vocabulary, and storytelling to communicate ideas. Receptive language therapy helps children understand directions, questions, concepts, and spoken information.

7. Do you provide pragmatic language and social communication therapy?
Yes. We support children who struggle with pragmatic language, social communication, conversational skills, perspective-taking, topic maintenance, asking and answering questions, and communication confidence.

8. Do you provide speech-language evaluations in Queens?
Yes. We provide speech-language evaluations in Queens. A pediatric speech-language pathologist can assess your child’s expressive language, receptive language, articulation, phonological skills, pragmatic language, social communication, language processing, and related communication needs.

9. Can speech therapy help with reading comprehension?
Yes, depending on the child’s needs. Some reading comprehension challenges are connected to oral language weaknesses, including vocabulary, sentence comprehension, inferencing, narrative language, and language processing. A speech-language pathologist can help determine whether language therapy may support your child’s comprehension.

10. Can sessions happen at my child’s daycare or preschool?
In many cases, yes. Depending on scheduling, location, and the policies of the daycare or preschool, our SLPs may be able to provide services in that setting. Therapy in a natural school or daycare environment can also help with carryover, peer communication, and collaboration with teachers.

How to Get Started

If you are looking for a private pediatric speech therapist, home visit SLP, or in-home speech-language evaluation in Queens, Brooklyn Letters can help.

Here is how the process works:

  1. Contact us: Tell us your child’s age, location, communication concerns, and whether you are looking for an evaluation, therapy, or both.
  2. Clinical matchmaking: We match your family with a licensed pediatric speech-language pathologist who has experience with your child’s needs and serves your Queens neighborhood.
  3. Begin in-home support: Your SLP coordinates with you to schedule sessions and begin individualized speech-language therapy.
  4. Parent guidance and carryover: We help you understand your child’s goals and how to support communication between sessions.

Ready to begin? Contact Brooklyn Letters to schedule private-pay pediatric speech-language therapy, a speech-language evaluation, or home visit SLP support in Queens, NYC.

Check out our full roster of speech therapists!

Call: (347) 394-3485,
Text: (917) 426-8880

Email: info@brooklynletters.com
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