Jessica Sweeney, owner of It’s Time To Talk, LLC and practicing SLP for 18 years, and Christine McCarthy, owner of Little Steps Therapy and practicing OT for 16 years, combined their expertise and knowledge to form Two River Pediatric Therapy in Red Bank, NJ. With their 35 years of combined experience, these two therapists work together as a team to create a warm and nurturing therapeutic milieu to encourage maximal growth and development for each family who enters our clinic.
Group therapy encourages the social milieu, social development and carryover into regular daily activities, while individual therapy addresses more specific and significant needs of each client. The main focus of our treatment paradigm is Family Centered Care in order to assist the parents of children with different needs meet their child’s highest potential.
Christine has extensive training in treating infants with motor delays and torticollis. She is trained in Total Motion Release for TOTS and has specialized training in sensory integration, NDT, vision assessment and treatment, and handwriting techniques. Christine is passionate about enabling families through education and support. She believes it is important that families have and utilize the tools they need to help their child succeed. cmccarthy@tworiverpediatrictherapy.com
Jessica has clinical experience in providing speech, language, swallowing and feeding therapy to children with a variety of therapeutic needs, including: language/learning disorders, articulation/phonological disorders, Autism Spectrum Disorder, pragmatic language disorder, stuttering/cluttering, ADHD, Verbal Apraxia, Down-Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, traumatic brain injury, most recently children and adults with Myofunctional Disorders, and more. Jessica is training to be a Certified Orofacial Myologist (COM) and is excited for her on-site visit in March of 2021 to finalize certification. She is level 1 trained in PROMPT, Beckman, Talk Tools, Myofunctional Therapy, and others. Jsweeney@tworiverpediatrictherapy.com
