Speech & Language Services
Ayelet Marinovich, M.A. CCC-SLP, is a speech-language pathologist based in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. Ayelet earned a Bachelor of Arts at Reed College in Portland, Oregon in Theater and Russian Literature before pursuing her Master of Arts at San Jose State University in San Jose, California.
She has worked primarily with children, in various school settings, home care, non-profit organizations and in private practice in both the United States and United Kingdom.
Her primary interests include:
- Early Intervention (working with families with infants and toddlers up to age three)
- Augmentative & Alternative Communication (AAC – working with children with complex communication needs)
- Using music as a framework to build language, interaction, and connection through family enrichment sessions (for families with infants & toddlers of all developmental levels).
Ayelet is the founder of Learn With Less (providing parent education and ongoing parent support for families with infants and toddlers of all developmental levels, via the Learn With Less® curriculum and her bestselling books), a small private speech-language pathology practice, and serves as adjunct faculty at San Jose State University in the Department of Communicative Disorders & Sciences.
Private Speech & Language Assessment and Therapy
At this time, Ayelet provides private evaluation and individualized intervention for infants, toddlers and preschool-aged children (0 – 5 years).
Early intervention (0 – 3 years) services are provided in your family’s home, the most naturalistic setting for your child, with parent/caregiver participation in therapy activities.
Communication, speech and language goals will be written to suit your family’s needs and based upon the results of a comprehensive speech/language evaluation.
Consultation / Who Qualifies For Services?
If you are concerned about your young child’s communication development, you are welcome to schedule a consultation with Ayelet to determine whether your child might qualify for speech and language services.
An informal screening may be conducted, and Ayelet will discuss aspects of typical communication development with you. Often, Ayelet will perform a comprehensive assessment to determine your child’s current communication levels, and to help guide therapy goals (along with family priorities).
Private speech/language therapy services may be provided in conjunction with additional therapies received by the child, and may complement and augment additional services. When other service providers are also working with the child, it is best to work collaboratively, whenever possible.
Learn With Less® “Parent & Me” Family Enrichment Sessions
Learn With Less provides local family enrichment groups based on the Learn With Less® Curriculum. We have a growing base of licensed facilitators in communities all over the world.
These are play-based groups for families with babies (0-12 months) and toddlers (12-36 months) using our four pillars (play, talk, sing, and move) to support all areas of development (cognitive, communicative, motor, and social/emotional).
These groups are appropriate for both developmentally delayed as well as “typically developing” infants and toddlers and their caregivers.
Learn With Less® sessions focus on communication strategies, language learning, and early development.
They are just as much about parent learning, connection, observation, and socialization as they are for the child!
Are you an educator or therapist interested in becoming a licensed Learn With Less® facilitator? Click here to learn more about our training & certification program.
Service Area
Strength In Words LLC serves individual speech and language service clients on the Peninsula and in the South Bay in the San Francisco Bay Area.
We are based in Los Altos, CA (94024).
“Our family feels truly blessed to have Ayelet working with our son. In the last six months Ayelet has helped our son make huge gains.
We began speech therapy at 18 months when our little one was behind the ‘average’ speech development at his 18 month check up. At that time he had 4 words and while he seemed to understand much of what he understood, he was not using very much expressive language.
Ayelet’s sessions have focused on helping him learn more language by building on what language is used in our home environment. Each week he is getting speech therapy that promotes language development through daily routines and play.
In addition, we as his parents are able to see how Ayelet’s strategies work so we can reinforce them as well.
Six months after beginning speech therapy his vocabulary has increased dramatically and he is greeting, commenting and singing frequently.”