Exciting news – we are expanding to Woburn! More information coming soon.
Exciting news – we are expanding to Woburn! More information coming soon.
Explore individualized speech and language therapy for toddlers, young children, school-age children, teens, and adults in Newton, MA and the Greater Boston area.
Experience individualized, play-based speech and language therapy in a sensory-rich environment. Our speech-language pathologists (SLPs) collaborate with our occupational therapists(OT’s) to support communication and participation needs. By blending movement and play, we nurture speech, language, and social development, providing children, adolescents, and adults with an engaging and fun learning journey towards lasting, positive change.
We provide individualized speech and language therapy based on each person’s communication strengths, needs, and goals. Our experienced Speech Language Pathologists are skilled in addressing many areas:
We support individuals with a wide range of diagnoses, developmental profiles, and communication needs including:
Achieve more transformative moments through our speech and language therapy services.
We support late talkers and toddlers with a speech delay or language delay using play-based, connection-focused therapy that builds communication skills through meaningful, everyday routines and interactions.
We use a neurodiversity affirming approach to support social communication, making meaningful connections, and building flexible and confident communication with others. Our neurodiversity affirming speech therapy approach recognizes and embraces that people communicate and connect in many different ways.
For toddlers and children, play provides natural opportunities to develop speech, language, and social communication skills. We build communication skills through meaningful play and everyday activities. We use a neurodivergent-affirming approach that follows a child’s lead and uses their strengths and unique communication style to create meaningful opportunities for play.
We support children, adolescents, and adults who learn and use language in echolalia, scripts, or “gestalts,” while helping to develop flexible, meaningful language for communicating their own ideas.
We help children and adolescents improve their speech sounds and clarity of speech through fun, individualized activities that support confident communication.
We use language-based strategies to help children, adolescents, and adults attend to, plan, execute and complete everyday tasks with greater independence.
As a child’s language develops, speech therapy can support them to organize and talk about their experiences, ideas, and interests.
We support children, adolescents, and adults who stutter or experience differences in speech fluency. Therapy focuses on building confidence, supporting comfortable and effective communication, and creating positive communication experiences while respecting each person’s unique way of speaking.
With experienced therapists from worlds of feeding, occupational therapy, and speech therapy coming together to tackle complex issues, we can help children navigate challenging mealtimes more effectively.
We support children, adolescents, and adults who use or may benefit from AAC. We are trained to support the use of a variety of speech-generating devices and other forms of AAC that you bring with you. While we do not provide AAC evaluations or device selection, we can support you in learning to use and communicate with your speech-generating device.
Improving your child’s or teen’s communication, language, or social skills can lead to better performance in school, as they learn to follow instructions, understand lessons, and participate in classroom discussions more effectively.
We help children, adolescents, and adults develop and advance their language skills so they can better understand others and communicate their thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences with greater ease and confidence. Our therapy supports understanding and using language across everyday life, from following directions and understanding more complex language to expressing ideas and making sense of what others are communicating. These skills support participation, learning, academic success, and communication across different stages of life.
See how we’ve helped these people see incredible progress.
My son has been getting speech and occupational therapy from OTA for almost six years, and they've helped him make great progress during that time. He currently sees Chanlynn and Anna who are excellent, but everyone there is very skilled. He has a lot of fun there too as he's learning and growing.
We’ve been part of OTA for several years but most recently worked with Anna R. She’s the best! Engaging, enthusiastic, knowledgeable and has our son’s best interests and growth potential at heart. She continues to work wonders with him and we couldn’t be happier!
My son has been going to Koomar Center for the last 4 years and loves it. He has seen Melissa and Erica and really enjoyed working with both therapist. He is excited to go every week and has an awesome progress. Even during pandemic they have found a way to keep OT going and had done an incredible job engaging via ZOOM. I cannot say enough good things about this place. Between the speech therapist, and the OT department they are literally changing the course of my child’s life for the better. My son loves OTA! He has grown so much and has a great time with Anna R. She keeps things fun, communicates well with parents and helps us work through issues as they arise. We are very thankful to have found OTA! Jake is awesome. He’s a great OT and we have lots of fun. I’ve had Jake as my OT for more than a year and am making lots of progress. We love our therapist Margaret! She is really knowledgeable and helpful. She is kind to my child and works with her at her age appropriate level. The space is really engaging and inventive as well. I’ve never seen anything like it! We love OTA. The therapists are fantastic and the space is beautiful. Our son has been doing speech therapy at OTA for many years (8 of his 12!) and we have nothing but 100% positive things to say. We love OTA. We first learned about it through my son’s school after we noticed he has some difficulties around sensory input and lack of ability to focus. We have been there for almost two years now and I can see a big change in the way he acts at school and at home. I know he will be in good hands going into Kindergarten next year. Our 10 yo loves going to OTA for his therapy appointments. He skips to the building and jumps up when his therapist comes to get him. We’re so grateful for OTA! We have been very satisfied with the speech and OT services at OTA. The therapists are not only highly qualified, they work to build a strong report with my kids and our family. We’ve been very grateful for the staff as well, who respond quickly to book or change appointments. Even though COVID they have provided consistent and responsive service. I have a fun time at OTA and some of my favorite therapists are Diana, Erica, Vannida and Karli. I like them because they make doing speech and OT more fun than the stuff at school. Professional and punctual administrative team and attractive facility. But what makes this place special is the people who work with clients. We've worked with a number of different SLPs and OTs and all have been knowledgeable, empathetic, creative and thoughtful. If you can get on Jennie S's and Emma's schedules, do it! We ADORE Andrea. My son looks forward to his weekly visits with her and has made incredible progress since starting with her. Jennie Schofield has a part of our lives for over 6 years, and has been so helpful to our child and also to us as parents! Great location and facilities, saw exponential growth in our child. He looked forward to each session, nothing but a positive experience. Every visit that I’ve ever had at OTA has been great. Pleasant experience every time. My son loved coming there! JEN is the best. My son typically hates therapies but asks to go every week and is upset when we miss a session. My daughter goes here for her speech therapy and her therapist is amazing. 