Elisabeth is a California licensed and ASHA certified Speech-Language Pathologist. A native northern Californian, Elisabeth began her undergraduate degree at KU, a top program for speech and hearing science. Elisabeth completed her Master’s degree at Midwestern University. Elisabeth has worked in a variety of settings, including: children’s hospital, private practice, Marin County school district, and is part of the Autism Center of Northern California Jumpstart team. Elisabeth has four years of experience and specialty in pediatric feeding and swallowing, early intervention, school-aged language disorders, and autism. Elisabeth completed further training in feeding disorders and early intervention, she is certified in the Sequential Oral Sensory Approach to Feeding and Hanen Centre It Takes Two to Talk. Elisabeth is the founder of Sweet Speech.
Elisabeth is incredible. I have known her for about 6 years. Not only does she provide quality care but she is knowledgeable in a variety of specialty areas...
Dani L.
13 May 2024
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Elisabeth is an excellent speech therapist caring and considerate. She is clearly passionate about her work. We worked with her for our daughter who was...
Janani V.
28 July 2023
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Finding Elisabeth was such a blessing Our son needed support with his speech and when we first spoke to Elisabeth we knew she would be a good fit. My sons...
joselyn b.
16 August 2022
Frequently Asked Questions
The goal of speech therapy is to help your child communicate effectively with other people across all environments. This may take the form of using gestures, simple signs, verbal speech, and Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC).
Some other common things speech therapists can help with:
Nonverbal skills, such as signs or gestures
Forming speech in a clearer way
Communicating thoughts and feelings clearly
Understanding and responding to questions
Discerning facial expressions and their corresponding emotions
Noticing and understanding body language
Feeding and swallowing
Stuttering
Even if a provider offers parent training, it may look different from one provider to another. For example, an in-home provider might conduct a parent training session directly following a therapy session with your child to help explain what they’ve been working on with your child. At larger organizations, you might have a support group of families who are dealing with similar issues.
It has become more common! While some families try DIR/Floortime on its own, it can be done in combination with other therapies, such as occupational therapy, speech therapy, and applied behavior analysis (ABA) therapy. Many families enjoy incorporating exercises from DIR/Floortime with other therapies. Many therapists and providers like to include DIR/Floortime’s play and child-led approach into their practices.
DIR/Floortime has some research to support its effectiveness, though this is limited. In a 2019 study, researchers published positive outcomes as a result of DIR/Floortime, including increased joint attention and initiation of activities.
DIR/Floortime is currently considered to be an experimental treatment. As of the 2015 publishing of the National Standards Project on evidence-based treatments, DIR/Floortime was listed under the “unestablished level of evidence” category. While Floortime can benefit some children, more research is needed to establish efficacy. Our expert recommends Affect Autism to learn more about the research behind DIR/Floortime.
Elisabeth Scott M.S. CCC-SLP
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