Venture Speech

About Venture Speech

Venture Speech is a pediatric speech-language pathology practice serving Golden and Wheat Ridge, Colorado. The practice offers speech services in several settings, including an office-based speech gym in Golden, nature-based sessions at Lookout Mountain Nature Center, aquatic sessions in Wheat Ridge, preschool partner locations, and public-school settings through school contracting. The website presents Venture Speech as a family-centered practice focused on helping children strengthen communication in ways that connect to daily life, school, play, and community activities.

The practice is owned by Taylor Wickey, M.A. CCC-SLP, a speech-language pathologist with ASHA, Colorado DORA, and Colorado Department of Education credentials listed on the site. Venture Speech describes its care as neurodiversity affirming and trauma informed, with attention to safety, emotional regulation, and each child’s preferred ways of listening, learning, and communicating. Sessions are described as child-led and adult-guided, with a total communication approach that may include spoken language, gestures, ASL, and AAC. Movement is built into treatment across settings, with activities such as yoga, walking, climbing, ball play, water play, and other active experiences used to support engagement and carryover. Treatment areas named on the website include speech sounds, social communication, expressive and receptive language, AAC, literacy, executive functioning, gestalt language processors, and support for nonspeaking or minimally speaking individuals. Getting started may involve a free consultation, a speech evaluation at the office, or an online record review, followed by a written report, goal plan, and review call. The practice also notes private-pay options, itemized superbills for out-of-network reimbursement, Colorado Health First Medicaid, and HSA/FSA payment.

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