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Early support for communication, feeding and development.
Supporting families and helping infants and toddlers (0–3)
grow and thrive.
In-home services • Personalized care • Flexible scheduling
Now accepting new clients
Where Development Blossoms
If you are concerned that your child is talking less than expected, not responding to your voice reliably, or struggling during mealtimes, trusting your instincts and seeking early support can help build strong foundations for communication, learning, and lifelong growth.
At Blossom Speech, we provide expert care that strengthens communication, interaction, feeding, and early development during the years that matter most.
Philosophy
The earliest years of development are critical for learning, communication, connection, and overall growth. Young children learn and develop through everyday experiences, interactions, and relationships. We believe each moment can lead to lasting growth and meaningful progress with the right guidance. We work alongside caregivers within your child’s daily routines and preferred play-based activities to strengthen communication and feeding skills the natural contexts of their daily life where learning is already taking place.
Sessions are interactive, engaging, and centered around the people, routines, and activities that matter most to your child and family — sometimes even including siblings, grandparents, or the family pet. Through play, mealtimes, caregiving routines, and everyday interactions, opportunities for communication, feeding, and learning are naturally embedded throughout the session. Caregivers are supported every step of the way through ongoing collaboration, hands-on coaching, and meaningful conversations that help build confidence and create lasting progress beyond the session itself.
We support caregivers in understanding their child’s development and make recommendations that will fit naturally into your family's everyday life. By incorporating these strategies into play, mealtimes, daily routines, outings and activities, children are given regular, meaningful opportunities to practice and strengthen skills. Our approach also builds caregivers' confidence to recognize and create natural opportunities for learning in everyday experiences.
Every child is unique and so is the care they deserve.
Services
We offer comprehensive services to support learning, communication, and feeding
helping each child blossom and grow.
Speech and Language Therapy
Early intervention communication services support infants and toddlers with delays or differences in speech, language, and social communication development that impact everyday interactions, participation, and early learning experiences. Services are provided within familiar, everyday environments and individualized based on each child’s unique strengths and needs.
Speech-language therapy helps young children understand and use language, communicate wants and needs, engage with others, and build meaningful connections through play and everyday interactions. Support may address expressive and receptive language development, functional communication skills, speech sound development, joint attention, engagement, interaction, and reducing frustration related to communication difficulties.
Sessions include caregiver participation and coaching to incorporate natural learning opportunities and communication strategies throughout daily routines and everyday experiences to increase interaction, encourage language use, and support communication across environments.
Infant & Toddler Feeding Therapy
Early intervention feeding services support infants and toddlers who have difficulties with eating, drinking, and participating successfully during mealtimes. Services are designed to support the development of feeding skills while creating positive, safe, and nutritious mealtime experiences for children and families.
We support feeding development across all stages of early eating, including breastfeeding, bottle feeding, transitioning to solids, and expanding food variety and textures. Therapy may address poor latch, weak suck, trouble coordinating feeding and breathing, oral-motor delays, sensory-based feeding differences, food refusal, extreme picky eating, and stressful mealtime behaviors. Services also support children with feeding challenges related to prematurity, developmental delays, autism, tongue tie, cleft palate, and other medical or structural differences.
We provide caregivers with coaching on practical strategies to support safe, efficient, and calm feeding routines. Support may include guidance on positioning, pacing, food introduction, sensory support, and responsive feeding practices to help families feel more confident supporting their child’s feeding development.
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services
Early intervention services for young children who are deaf or hard of hearing support communication, access to language, and participation in everyday interactions and early learning experiences.
Services are provided using a total communication approach, incorporating communication methods that best support each child’s unique strengths, needs, and family goals. This may include sign language, spoken language, listening skills, and other communication strategies that support language development, everyday communication skills, and active participation in daily routines and interactions.
We provide caregivers with coaching, education, and practical strategies to support their child’s communication development while helping families better understand hearing loss and its impact on development. Families are also guided in exploring communication approaches, hearing technology, educational options, and community resources so they can make informed and confident decisions for their child.
Developmental Assessments
Assessment services for infants and toddlers help identify strengths, areas of need, and developmental skills related to communication, feeding, learning, play, and participation in everyday routines.
When there are concerns about development, we are here to support families from the very first step. We conduct Infant-Toddler Developmental Assessments (IDA) to better understand a child’s overall development and determine whether early intervention services may be beneficial. Prior to beginning services, we may complete a more in-depth evaluation to help develop the right support plan for your child. All services include ongoing developmental monitoring. Evaluations may also be provided as stand-alone services.
Assessments are conducted using a family-centered approach, with caregiver input valued throughout the process to ensure a supportive and accurate understanding of your child’s abilities, needs, and everyday experiences.
“If you tend to a flower, it will bloom - no matter how many weeds surround it.”
— Matshona Dhliwayo
About
Stormy Iverson,
PhD, CCC-SLP, CLC
Founder of Blossom Speech Clinic
Blossom Speech Clinic is led by Dr. Stormy Iverson.
Dr. Iverson is a pediatric speech-language pathologist specializing in early communication, deafness, pediatric feeding, and lactation. She has over 20 years of clinical experience helping children build strong foundations for communication, learning, connection, and lifelong growth through compassionate, responsive care grounded in trust, connection, and respect for each child and family.
She is certified by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), licensed in the states of California and Oregon, and a Certified Lactation Counselor through the Academy of Lactation Policy and Practice. She holds a Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology from Gallaudet University and a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of California, Los Angeles. As a PhD-trained clinician, Dr. Iverson brings together research, clinical expertise, and real-world early intervention experience to support meaningful developmental progress.
Dr. Iverson founded Blossom Speech Clinic to support and empower children and families during the earliest years of communication, interaction, and learning.
