Speech Zone

About Speech Zone

Speech Zone is a pediatric speech-language therapy practice located at 2112 Broadway, Ground Floor, in New York City. The clinic states that it works with children from 6 months through 21 years of age and offers individualized care through one-on-one therapy, small-group services, specialized classes, consultations, and short-term intensives. Its website presents the practice as family focused, with an emphasis on personalized planning, collaboration, and practical support for caregivers. Speech Zone also describes a nurturing, play-based setting where treatment is tailored to each child’s communication needs and families are included in the process.

According to the site, services begin with comprehensive speech-language evaluations that combine caregiver input, standardized testing, and informal observation, followed by a written report with goals, recommendations, and next steps. The practice lists support for speech sound and articulation difficulties, childhood apraxia of speech, delayed speech and language development, receptive and expressive language disorders, social-pragmatic communication needs, autism-related communication differences, feeding and oral-motor concerns, fluency, and AAC. Speech Zone also offers classes such as Babbling Babies for 12 to 17 month olds and caregivers, Talking Tots for children who are late talkers or need extra language support before preschool, Lunch Bunch for preschool social communication during mealtime, and a summer therapeutic camp for children ages 3 to 6. The staff page names owner and director Chelsey Kotler, MA, CCC-SLP, TSSLD, along with Erin Lustbader, MS, CCC-SLP, TSSLD, Allie Chaikin, MA, CCC-SLP, TSSLD, and Madison Gluck, MA, CCC-SLP, TSSLD. The clinicians’ listed training and interests include PROMPT, the Lidcombe Program for stuttering, feeding intervention, AAC support, autism, and child-centered functional treatment approaches.

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