Chickadee Chatter Speech Therapy LLC

🌿 Week TWO in Tiny Trails!

This week, our Tiny Trails friends explored areas with babbling water and leafy underbrush, discovering some frogs along the way!

We created natural opportunities to work on anticipating language through songs and repetition, and used animal noises and sounds to support early phonemes and joint attention with communication. 💬🌱

One of our favorite moments? Pretending to be ducks while singing "Five Little Ducks" and having parents call their children back with a "quack quack quack!"

Tiny Trails is all about giving little learners opportunities to play, explore, communicate, and grow—without communication ever feeling forced.

🌿 Curious about Tiny Trails? You don't have to commit to the full program to see if it's a good fit! Families can join us for a single session for only $30 and try it out.
Send us a message to learn more or join us for an upcoming Tiny Trails adventure! 💚
Find out more at chickadeechatter.com/tinytrails!

What does a therapy space look like?
At Chickadee Chatter, there isn’t just one answer.

Sometimes it’s a cozy office. Sometimes it’s a backyard, a treehouse, or beside the pond. Sometimes we’re exploring the farm, learning outside, or connecting virtually from home.

Each space gives us different opportunities to play, explore, communicate, problem-solve, and connect, allowing us to think intentionally about the environment that best supports each learner.

Meaningful communication doesn’t ONLY happen sitting at a therapy table. It happens while climbing, creating, discovering, talking, playing, and experiencing the world together.

From The Nest to the Treehouse, the Rackliff Family Farm to the great outdoors, our therapy spaces are designed to meet learners where they are, in more ways than one.

Swipe through for a peek at some of the places where learning happens at Chickadee Chatter. 🐦🌿

🌿 A little reintroduction—and a little more about the heart behind Chickadee Chatter.

I’m Katherine: a Speech-Language Pathologist, Outdoor Therapist, mom, lifelong Mainer, and the founder of Chickadee Chatter.

My work is rooted in the belief that some of the most meaningful learning happens when kids have the opportunity to move, explore, connect, and experience the world around them.

As an SLP, I’m always thinking about communication. As an Outdoor Therapist, I see endless opportunities for learning outside. And as a mom, I know how important it is for the strategies we give families to actually fit into real life.

I’m also lucky to collaborate with my husband, Jake, a Registered Maine Guide. Together, we combine our different backgrounds and skills to create experiences that support kids and families while giving back to the Maine community we both call home. 🌲

Because at the end of the day, I don’t just want kids to practice skills.

I want them to use those skills while making friends, trying something new, solving a problem, exploring a trail, getting a little muddy, and simply being kids. 🌿

That’s the heart behind Chickadee Chatter—and I’m so glad you’re here. 🐦

🌿 Week One in Tiny Trails!

This week, our Tiny Trails friends met one another and explored their new space full of exciting things to discover!

Along the way, we created natural opportunities to work on turn-taking, safe boundaries, and parent-modeled pacing and language expansion through play, movement, and time outdoors. 💬🌱

One of our favorite moments? Building sandy towers (decorated with fern leaves, sticks and stones) and pretending to be ants while marching in the sand, singing "The Ants Go Marching."

Tiny Trails is all about giving little learners opportunities to play, explore, communicate, and grow—without communication ever feeling forced.

🌿 Curious about Tiny Trails? You don't have to commit to the full program to see if it's a good fit! Families can join us for a single session for only $30 and try it out.

Send us a message to learn more or join us for an upcoming Tiny Trails adventure! 💚

Find out more at chickadeechatter.com/tinytrails!

Our first Tiny Trails adventure kicked off today! Building Sandy structures, while marching like ants through our anthills. Lots of bubbles and babbling while learning about Parentese, pausing and reducing pressure while communicating.

It’s not too late to join us! Enroll your little one now at chickadeechatter.com/tinytrails!

Speech Solutions Families — We Need Your Voice 💙

Over the past several months, we have been working behind the scenes to learn as much as we can about proposed changes to CMS reimbursement rates and to understand what these changes could mean for Speech Solutions and the families we serve.

If these reimbursement changes move forward, the impact could be significant. For practices like ours, continued reductions in reimbursement make it increasingly difficult to cover the actual cost of providing high-quality therapy services. Ultimately, these changes could affect access to care, therapist availability, and even which insurance plans we are able to continue accepting in order to keep our doors open and continue serving our community.

We don’t want families to lose access to the therapy their children need. This is why your voice matters so much right now.

If speech therapy has made a difference in your child’s life, please scan the QR code and share your story. We’ll help turn your experience into a letter that can be shared with federal policymakers so they can understand the real-life impact these decisions have on children, families, and the providers who care for them.

It only takes a few minutes, but your story can make a difference. 💙

Please share this post and help us advocate for continued access to speech therapy.

— The Speech Solutions Team

** If the QR Code doesn't work, here is a link**
https://form.jotform.com/262386270505154

So excited to be participating in the vendor show this weekend with Jess Applin, PhD / Growing Littles

Join us for some nature crafting straight from “The Outdoor Guidebook”! Limited hard copies will be available to purchase this weekend!

Can’t wait to see you there!