Speech & Feeding Therapy in Lafayette.
You have watched the other kids at the park and done the arithmetic in your head. You have sat through a feed that took an hour. One evaluation tells you what is actually going on, in plain language, and what to do about it. No referral needed to book.
Speech, feeding and OMD. That is all we do.
Hope Therapy is not a general pediatric clinic with a speech room attached. Sonya Brooks built it around one job: the mouth, the ears and the words. Your child sees the same therapist every visit, one on one, and you are in the room learning it too, because what happens in the other six days of the week is what actually moves the needle.
Real outcomes.
Real people.
Unedited words from the families who sat where you are sitting: a newborn who could not latch, a three year old nobody outside the house could understand, a dinner table that had become a battle.
Start where the problem actually is.
Speech & Language
When strangers cannot understand your child, or the words are not coming at all.
Infant Feeding & Tongue Tie
Painful latch, endless feeds, a baby who never seems full. We look at the mouth first.
Feeding & Food Aversions
Mealtimes that end in tears. We widen the safe list without the fight.
Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy
Mouth breathing, tongue thrust, thumb habits: retraining the muscles of the face.
Four phases, and you always know which one you are in.
Pinpoint
A full evaluation of how your child listens, speaks, chews and swallows. You leave knowing what is actually going on, in plain language.
Prime
Build the foundation the skill sits on: oral muscles that work, a mouth that rests correctly, an ear that can tell sounds apart.
Perform
Move the new skill into real life. The dinner table, the classroom, the playground, the conversations that matter to your family.
Prevent
You leave with the strategies and the home practice to keep the gains. The best outcome is the one that holds after discharge.
The same therapist. Every single visit.
No handoffs, no rotating faces, no starting the story over. Your therapist knows your child cold because she is the only one who works with them. A three year old who takes four weeks to warm up does not have to spend those four weeks again in June.
A plan with your child's name on it, not a printout.
The evaluation maps what your child can actually do: how the tongue moves, how the jaw rests, which sounds are missing and why, how food is managed from lip to swallow. Then the plan gets built around your real week. The car seat. The daycare snack. The grandparents who cannot understand him on the phone.
Three therapists. The same faces every visit.
What we treat in Lafayette.
Ears, mouth, tongue, jaw and throat. Tap a point on the figure, or tap a card, to see the concerns we treat in each area and where to read more.
Ears & Listening
Auditory processing difficulty, trouble following directions, listening breakdowns in noisy classrooms, reading and spelling struggles
Learn More →Speech Sounds & Language
Unclear speech, late talking, small vocabulary, sentences that will not come together, stuttering and word repetitions
Learn More →Tongue & Lip Ties
Tethered oral tissues, shallow or painful latch, clicking while feeding, poor weight gain, bottle refusal, reflux-like symptoms
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Jaw & TMJ
Jaw pain, clicking or locking, clenching and grinding, headaches tied to the jaw, difficulty opening wide enough to eat comfortably
Learn More →Face & Oral Muscles
Mouth breathing, tongue thrust, open mouth resting posture, thumb and pacifier habits, orthodontic relapse
Learn More →Chewing & Swallowing
Food aversion and extreme picky eating, gagging, coughing during meals, textures that never get accepted, mealtimes that end in tears
Learn More →The money question, answered before you book.
Coverage for speech and feeding therapy varies more than almost any other service. Call us with your card and we will check your benefits and tell you the real number before your first visit.
Every family starts with one conversation.
Tell us what you are seeing at home. We will tell you whether it is worth an evaluation, what that evaluation would look for, and what it would cost. No pressure, no upsell, no waiting six weeks to find out.
Built for children, from newborns to teenagers.
A plan, not guesswork.
Every plan follows the four phases and gets measured against the baseline we took on day one: which sounds were missing, which textures were refused, how long a feed took. You should never have to wonder whether therapy is working. We show you what changed and what has not.
The moment someone else understands your child.
Progress in speech and feeding is measured in ordinary moments. A stranger understanding your four year old. A newborn who finishes a feed and sleeps. A dinner that ends without a fight. That is the scoreboard we work from, and we tell you honestly where your child sits on it at every review.
Answers before you even ask.
You do not need a referral to book an evaluation with us. Some insurance plans do require a physician referral before they will pay, so we check that when we verify your benefits and we tell you before your first visit.
Coverage for speech and feeding therapy varies more than almost any other service, so we verify your benefits before your first visit and tell you the real number. Self-pay rates are available and we will walk you through them honestly.
Most families notice something small inside the first few weeks: a new sound, an easier feed, a calmer meal. The full timeline depends on what we find at the evaluation, and we give you an honest estimate then rather than a number that sounds good.