OWLS Therapy, Under the Direction of Janene Besch, is a Comprehensive Speech and Language Therapy Practice Focusing on Oral Language, Writing, Literacy and Speech. Your child's speech and communication skills are paramount to both academic and social success. We pride ourselves in offering comprehensive evaluations and evidence based treatment that incorporates clinical expertise, best current evidence, and client values.
Based in the Northern Virginia area, we are here to help your child meet their full potential. We also understand that your time is important which is why all of our services are offered in the comfort and convenience of your own home. Review our list of developmental "red flags" that may necessitate Speech-Language Therapy.
Based in the Northern Virginia area, we are here to help your child meet their full potential. We also understand that your time is important which is why all of our services are offered in the comfort and convenience of your own home. Review our list of developmental "red flags" that may necessitate Speech-Language Therapy.
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Mission & Philosophy
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OWLS Therapy is a speech and language therapy practice serving children in the Northern Virginia area. We are dedicated to helping your child's speech and communication skills develop and grow as we believe they are essential to their academic and social success. We offer comprehensive evaluations and devise individual therapy plans that best match your child's personal needs.
Speech & Language
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PROMPT (PROMPTS for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets) is a technique used to help target speech production errors for children with apraxia and speech sound disorders. OWLS Therapy speech-language pathologists are trained in PROMPT - an approach that uses tactile cues to the face to aid a client in the correct position of their articulators (jaw, tongue, lips) to correctly produce a targeted word, phrase or sentence.
Social Skills
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Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorders encompasses problems with social interaction, social understanding and pragmatics (using language appropriate to the situation). Social Thinking is a program developed to help children who struggle with social language skills increase their social competency across settings.
Dyslexia & Reading Services
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Dyslexia & Reading Services are available for children who have difficulties learning to read and/or spell. Dyslexia is a learning disability that is characterized by a child's difficulties in learning to read despite normal intelligence. Symptoms include difficulties in sounding out words, reading words fluently, spelling, reading comprehension, and writing.
Advocacy Services
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At OWLS Therapy, we understand how confusing, overwhelming, and frustrating getting services in the public-school system can be. But we also understand the positive impact those services can have on a child's academic success.
Our speech-language pathologists are available to attend Individualized Education Plan (IEP), Child Study, Service Plan, and Eligibility / Reevaluation meetings to help you navigate the never-ending acronyms, legalese, and hoops you have to jump through.We also will read through plans (IEP and Service) and meeting minutes before you sign to make sure that the labels, services and goals best match your child's needs and full academic potential.
Our speech-language pathologists are available to attend Individualized Education Plan (IEP), Child Study, Service Plan, and Eligibility / Reevaluation meetings to help you navigate the never-ending acronyms, legalese, and hoops you have to jump through.We also will read through plans (IEP and Service) and meeting minutes before you sign to make sure that the labels, services and goals best match your child's needs and full academic potential.
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