Our Services
Delayed Language Development
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No speaking by the age of two (still no first word). By the age of three, only speaking in single words.
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Reaction to and understanding of speech, but rarely any speaking initiated by the child (showing significant delays in expressive language development)
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Responses to being called are rare
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No imitating or only rare attempts at imitating others' speech
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A delayed language diagnosis from school or in a health check
Weakness in Reading, Writing, and Mathematics
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Difficulty reading even after completing the first grade
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Reading difficulties: mixing up letters; reading in the wrong direction; skipping sounds; not understanding what is written; taking too long to read, or an inability to recognize once something has been read
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Writing difficulties: writing letters' mirror images; an inability to follow the line of writing; trouble copying letters from a blackboard; struggles in writing compositions; misunderstanding punctuation
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Difficulties in mathematics: an inability to recognize and understand numbers and symbols; trouble distinguishing larger and smaller numbers; inability to follow the patterns of numbers
Stuttering and Speech Disfluency
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Repetition of sounds (bbb-bag) or the unnatural lengthening of certain sounds
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Stuttering blocks (no airflow or voice for several seconds)
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The inability to speak well causes overwhelming anxiety and nervousness
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A lack of speaking (avoiding speaking)
Behavioral Modification Treatment
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Behavior modification is based on the idea that good behavior should lead to positive consequences and bad behavior should lead to negative consequences.
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These are strategies to get your child to follow the rules.
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For kids with ADHD, or autism, but it can be effective for kids of all types.
Communication
Problems
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Not making eye contact with others
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Not understanding others' feelings
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Having an inability to interact with or converse with other children or adults (for example, the conversation doesn't mesh, becomes one-sided, or becomes tedious)
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Having an inability to grasp how to follow the rules of games and how to wait for one's turn
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Struggling to share feelings, interests, or personal thoughts with others
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Being unable to work in groups
Cognitive Development Delays
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Are unable to organize their thoughts enough to complete a puzzle, sort non-identical items, or plan and build with blocks
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Have trouble reproduce shapes
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Have a low-level recognition of body parts
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Struggle when trying to copy simple movements or sounds
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Make no attempt to work with or influence others on their own
Articulation Abnormalities
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Struggles to pronounce certain sounds (mixing up Ps and Fs or Bs and Vs are good examples)
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Shows signs of a frontal or lateral lisp (frontal lisps occur with a misplacement of the tongue while lateral lisps are when a person allows air to pass the sides of the tongue when speaking)
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Speaks in a way that produces a very nasal or stuffy-sounding voice
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Has an awareness of his or her pronunciation difficulties
Social Skills Training
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Social thinking and pragmatics is a therapeutic approach used to improve interpersonal relations, such as maintaining eye contact or learning about appropriate distance. The therapy focuses on verbal and nonverbal behaviors common in social relationships
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For children with Asperger's Syndrome, ASD, Social Communication Disorder, ADHD, Twice Exceptional, and/or Social Anxiety disorders.
Occupational Therapy
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Rikke Jencel
Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) Psychologist
Rikke, fluent in French, English, and Norwegian, is a BCBA who primarily offers supervision of LUCREA’s therapists in English along with therapy for clients in French. She has been working with LUCREA from February of 2019 to now.
Mai Funahira
Speech-Language-Hearing-Therapist
Mai is a speech-language-hearing therapist who primarily offers therapy in Japanese. She has been working with LUCREA, Inc. from 2016 to now.
Michael Lara
Occupational Therapist (OT)
Michael, fluent in English and Tagalog, is an Occupational Therapist who primarily offers therapy in English. He has been working with LUCREA, Inc. from 2017 to now.
Ryan Furuya
Board Certified
Behavior Analyst
(BCBA)
US-trained BCBA since 2014. Experince with clients aged 1.5 to 60 years in various settings (homes, schools, group homes, hospitals, public settings). Worked in Seattle, Hawaii, and Japan with famiies from many different cultures.
Our Certified Therapists
Ryan
Furuya
Board Certiifed
Behavior Analyst
(BCBA)
Rikke
Jencel
Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA)
Psychologist
Mai
Funahira
Speech-Language-Hearing
Therapist
Michael
Lara
Occupational Therapist (OT)
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