Clarity Speech Therapy

Clarity Speech Therapy offers home-based speech and
language therapy personalized to your child’s specific needs. Our lessons are fun for kids, using board games, word games,
and movement activities such as scavenger hunts to keep your child
engaged while we work on their speech goals.
* We work with children ages 3-18.
* Our service area includes Cambridge, Arlington, Medford, Somerville, and Belmont.
Services will be provided in a setting that is comfortable
for you and your child, such as your home or yard, a library, a park,
or other community settings. We believe in a collaborative approach
that includes the parents’ priorities and welcomes parental engagement in the treatment.

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We specialize in the treatment of articulation & phonological disorders. These occur when a child distorts or substitutes easier speech sounds like “W” for harder-to-produce sounds like “R” (e.g. “wacing caw” instead of “racing car”). This is a normal part of a child’s language development but it becomes more problematic if it persists into kindergarten and beyond. We will help your child overcome even the most persistent speech sound difficulties with fun, individualized speech activities and games.

Clarity Speech Therapy also works with children struggling with expressive and receptive language, including vocabulary, grammar, syntax, reading comprehension, and expressive writing,. We rely on fun, evidence-based activities that will help your child build meaningful, grammatical sentences from the ground up. With these sentence-level building blocks in place, we will then work on helping them express their ideas in well-formed paragraphs and essays.
Our Speech Therapist:
David Barnes, M.S., CCC-SLP

David excels at working with children on their speech clarity, often making headway with kids who struggled for years before working with him. His work as a Speech Therapist in public schools has given him extensive experience participating in IEP meetings, conducting speech and language evaluations, writing IEP reports, and working with allied professionals such as Special Ed teachers, Occupational Therapists, Psychologists, and General Education Teachers.

David received his Master of Science in Communication Disorders from MGH Institute of Health Professionals. He holds a Certificate of Clinical Competency in Speech Language Pathology (CCC-SLP) and is licensed to practice in the state of Massachusetts. He has a BA in Psychology and Music from Swarthmore College. David is also a licensed Reading Specialist in the state of Massachusetts and has specialized training in the treatment of expressive writing deficits.

In his free time, David enjoys playing board games, reading, socializing with friends, having barbecues with his wife (a nurse practitioner), and composing music.
Contact Us
for a free phone consultation:

(617) 335-9002
david@clarityspeechma.com

Clarity Speech Therapy
Dudley st.
Cambridge, MA