Sound Waves Speech Therapy is based in Irvine, California and primarily provides services to Irvine, Tustin, Costa Mesa and Newport Beach. Services may also be provided to portions of Santa Ana, Lake Forest, Huntington Beach, Laguna Beach, Mission Viejo, Alison Viejo, and Laguna Niguel depending on distance for a travel fee. 

For the most up to date information, please sign up for a free consultation on our Contact Us page to learn more.

As of September 2024, we have immediate availability. 

If you have an evaluation from another clinic that is less than 6 months old, we will accept it if it has detailed scores and analysis provided in the report.

If you notice challenges with any form of communication (i.e. speech, limited receptive language, limited expressive language, pointing, challenges with vocabulary, social interactions, playing) we recommend trusting your intuition and seeking out an evaluation.  Following the "wait and see" approach can leave negative impacts on your child's development.  

Please sign up for a free consultation on our Contact Us page to learn more.

Parent/care-giver involvement is required during speech therapy sessions. 

Sound Waves Speech Therapy utilizes a child-led, play-based methodology. For best results, parents need to remain actively involved in order to learn how to utilize these tools or replicate these habits outside of the child's speech therapy sessions. 

A doctor’s referral is not necessary in order to start therapy. However, if you are submitting your superbills, please check with your insurance provider to see if it is required for reimbursement. Once we have evaluated your child, we will be happy to schedule a call with your pediatrician to consult on your child’s current communication skills.

It will look like PLAY! We will be on the floor, buried in toys, outside, or wherever our imagination takes us! Sessions are 45 mins in length and start at clinician arrival time.

Sessions do not have a set structure because we follow the child's lead and address regulations needs as they arise. Typically each 45 min session will aim for 30-35 minutes of direct treatment and 10-15 mins of parent/caregiver education. Parent/caregiver involvement is not optional as it is an essential part in our treatment model.

Parents/caregivers are required to be on site and available for the entirety of session.

Sick Policy: If your child is sick, please notify us as soon as possible so that we can protect our therapists. Cancellations requested greater than 24 hours in advance will not incur a fee. For cancellations requested within 24 hours of the scheduled session, see our cancellation policy below. Please reach out to Kristin at kristin@soundwavestherapy.com or call/text us at (949) 373-5057.  

Vacations or Temporary Changes in Schedule: If you are traveling within the state of California, your session may be converted to a tele-therapy session and remain at the same rate.  If you wish to cancel your session for any reason, please adhere to our cancellation policy below.

Cancellation Policy: If a session is cancelled for any reason with less than 24 hrs, the session will automatically be converted to a parent coaching session through Zoom.  This will create a structured opportunity for you to discuss your child's progress overall, ask questions, share concerns, and receive helpful tips and tricks to support your kiddo.  If you do not wish to take advantage of the parent coaching session, a $50 cancellation fee will apply. If a session is cancelled within 2hrs of session start time, the full session fee will be charged and a parent coaching session will not be offered.  This is also the case if a clinician arrives at your home/on site and you are not present.  Our clinicians will wait 15 minutes before going ahead and cancelling the session. 

Ideally, you will be involved in every session! You will see the progress in real time and we will continue to plan for next steps together.  

For more structured progress updates, you will automatically receive detailed progress notes every 6 months.  Formal re-evaluations occur at a yearly basis. 

Beach Buddies is NOT a group speech therapy class. Beach Buddies is a group sensory play class, led by a staff member of Sound Waves Speech Therapy. 

Beach buddies is a great class for parents that are 1) stuck on a waitlist for services and need to find activities that foster language development for their child while they wait, 2) looking to increase their child's social opportunities, 3) looking to learn more about sensory regulation and its involvement in our ability to learn, or 4) looking for a community to join.

Beach Buddies is for neurotypical and neurodivergent children! All are welcome. Please sign up for a free consultation on our Contact Us page to learn more.

At this time, Sound Waves Speech therapy does not accept insurance payments and is not an in-network provider for any insurance networks. However, we do provide detailed superbills for potential reimbursement from your health insurance carrier.

Our superbill will include all the insurance codes needed to seek reimbursement from your insurance carrier. 

You can submit our superbill for a possible reimbursement from your insurance company for an out-of-network provider. For information about reimbursement rates, contact your insurance provider about your specific out-of-network benefits.

Please note, Speech Therapy (ST) is a covered service within flexible spending accounts.