Northport Wellness Center Alliance Member and Speech and Language Pathologist Purvi Gandhi, M.A. CCC-SLP, TSSLD, is a New York- and ASHA-certified speech-language pathologist
At her clinic in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York, Purvi tailors speech-language therapy sessions for pediatric clients based on their evaluation results, individualized education programs (IEPs) and parental observations in order to achieve appropriate communication goals.
During therapy, she employs her knowledge, expertise and technology to deliver the highest quality services to each client. Her ultimate objective is to transition each client’s communication skills from a learned environment to a functional environment, like school and home.
Purvi also trains families and caregivers, teaches in the community and provides direct treatment to her clients with diverse special needs. Her practice respects each client’s unique treatment needs.
Intervention services include:
Speech and Language Therapy
• Receptive and expressive language disorders/disabilities
• Auditory and language processing disorders
• Articulation and phonological disorders
• Language-based literacy and learning disorders and language disabilities
• Language, pragmatic, and autism spectrum speech disorders
• Speech disorders due to apraxia of speech and dysarthria
• Behavioral feeding disorders
• Language and learning disorders with sensory processing disorders
• Speech and language disorders due to medical conditions
PROMPT Therapy
The PROMPT system (Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets) was formally devised by Deborah Hayden in the late 1970s after working with children suffering severe motor impairment who did not respond to traditional auditory and visual treatment.
The development of PROMPT treatment was grounded in theoretical and clinical perspectives that cross several disciplines focused on physical, mental and social development. Since then, PROMPT has continued to evolve, influenced by scholarly work that includes the neurobiological, cognitive-linguistic and social aspects.
It has been said that PROMPT “directly translates the neuromuscular movements required for the phonemic system, connects them to linguistic codes and articulation sequences for communicative interactions.” For more information, visit www.promptinstitute.com, The Kaufman Speech to Language Protocol (K-SLP).
The PROMPT protocol, developed by Nancy Kaufman in 1979, teaches children with apraxia an easy way to say words until they have increased motor speech coordination. Children are taught the shell of words without including complex consonants, vowels or syllables that make a word too difficult to even attempt on a motor basis. This teaching method is a reflection of how young children attempt their first words. For more information on this topic, visit www.kidspeech.com.
Pragmatic/Social Skills Groups for Children
Social communication or pragmatics refers to the way in which children use language within social situations. The ability to use language, to adapt language to meet the needs of the listener or situations and to follow the “ unspoken” rules of conversation and storytelling are the three main components of pragmatic language skills.
Social communication is extremely important in order to build social relationships with other people and community. It is also important academically, since the children rely on working in small groups or teams for projects in school. When a child has social communication difficulties, they might also have difficulties with behavior, sensory processing, planning and sequencing, working memory, receptive and expressive language skills, articulation, fluency, play skills, and completing academic work.
Purvi utilizes role-playing, taking turns, describing activities, using puppets, and an engaging social skills group to assist her clients in improving their social communication skills.
Purvi Gandhi provides Speech and Language Pathology services at:
127 South St. Suite 1
Oyster Bay NY, 11771
153 Main Street, Suite 2 B
Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724
To schedule an appointment or to learn more, call (917) 860-3373, email purvi@pgspeechtherapy.com or visit pgspeechtherapy.com.
