Preventasaurus, LLC
Preventing speech, language, and feeding disorders and so much more...
Our mission
Through thoughtful and meaningful human connection, our mission is to change the world by empowering every child’s caregivers to discover the potential of and promote the skills necessary for an optimal life of healthy and happy relationships within their community and beyond.
Who We Are
We are our mission.
“Our mission is to change the world.” Why not? It may be ambitious, but why strive for less?
“Our mission is to change the world.” Why not? It may be ambitious, but why strive for less?
We want to get to know you in order to understand how we can help. We are not a “program,” a “curriculum,” or a “system.” We get to learn what you value most “through thoughtful and meaningful human connection.” We value the personal connections we make with parents and caregivers over anything else. It is through these conversations that we are able to build personalized, meaningful, and practical plans of action for each individual child and their caregivers. Every child is different and every parent is different. We do not want to give you generic, one-size-fits all information and expect it to work for everyone. We want to get to know you-your values, your goals, your culture, your challenges, and your strengths, and then be able to provide what might work best for your family and your community. This is how we work best.
“Our mission is to change the world.” Why not? It may be ambitious, but why strive for less?
“Our mission is to change the world.” Why not? It may be ambitious, but why strive for less?
“Our mission is to change the world.” Why not? It may be ambitious, but why strive for less?
We truly feel that, by empowering parents and caregivers to “discover the potential of and promote the skills necessary” for development, we can make the future brighter for everyone. We have heard statements like this many times: “I didn’t know they were supposed to be doing that!” or “How am I supposed to know that they need to do that? I’m not an expert!” We want parents to feel empowered to be the expert on their child-not on child development. Knowing what children are capable of achieving can lead to exciting discoveries and stronger relationships.
We are passionate professionals
“Our mission is to change the world.” Why not? It may be ambitious, but why strive for less?
We are passionate professionals
As speech pathologists, we value the components of child development (especially the development of communication and healthy feeding skills) that lead to “healthy and happy relationships” and we want to share with you how to achieve these goals to enrich your lives. Communication is at the foundation of success in every sense of that word. No matter how you define success, communication skills are, at the very least, a backdrop to that plan. This is our passion that we have made accessible to everyone.
We have diverse experience
We are parents too...and we're far from perfect
We are passionate professionals
We have worked with families of children with varying ages and abilities and of very different backgrounds. Early intervention, direct inpatient and outpatient care, public school systems, private therapy clinics, autism centers, etc. Each one of these experiences has brought to light for us the universal need for prevention and we have worked for years to bring this vision to fruition. Unfortunately, prevention is all but untouched in our field. There is no consistent and reliable platform for it. We would like to change that.
We are parents too...and we're far from perfect
We are parents too...and we're far from perfect
We are parents too...and we're far from perfect
As parents ourselves, we realize the enormity of information that is available and how overwhelming it can be as consumers. The “parenting market” is a broad one, with thousands of “experts” and even more claims. We strive to be educated consumers ourselves. We struggle to sift through everything we see in research articles, educational journals, the internet, and social media and to make sense of it all. Because we do not adopt or sell a “system,” we will bring you the humble knowledge from experience that we are lucky to have gained and we promise to deliver accessible, actionable, reasonable, and culturally sensitive guidance.
We can't do it alone either
We are parents too...and we're far from perfect
We are parents too...and we're far from perfect
We are strong believers in the timeless proverb, “It takes a village to raise a child.” With that lens, we see your child as a member of your family but also of their community, whether that implies present or future relationships. We will help your child achieve goals “within their community and beyond” and we encourage parents and caregivers to seek the counsel, friendship, advice, and support of the distinct members of their own village.
Prevention Model
Our prevention model includes three parts that overlap dynamically, providing unique support for your children and the people who care for them.
At its core, prevention requires the DISCOVERY of our children's capabilities and of what is just beyond their reach. They need us to help them reach that potential.
The cornerstone of our prevention model is the PROMOTION of skills that lead to optimal development of speech, feeding, and language. These activities extend well beyond the household and the classroom. We aim to meet every child and every family where they are comfortable and help them discover a path that they did not know existed.
Pathology is the study of problems. We are well aware, even with the best intentions to prevent, that problems will still exist and persist. We help you ADVOCATE for your child-to see them from a different perspective-when all else has failed.
Packages and transparency
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Current packages and prices are all listed below:
The only item you need on your registry except for a crib, diapers, wipes, car seat and a baby wearing device. Invest in your child's most important learning tool- you! *Also the best baby shower gift ever!
Kids don't come with a playbook! Have questions about a specific problem you are seeing or want general strategies for how to push your child to that next level? Schedule a personalized consultation from anywhere in the world.
Advocacy package
$150
Let us help you prepare for that next wellness visit with your pediatrician and give you the tools you need to advocate for your child and follow your parental instincts.
All packages will take place via Zoom, phone, and email, unless otherwise requested