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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 support for communication, social interaction, feeding
and early development skills during the years that matter most.
Philosophy
Our work is grounded in the belief that meaningful progress happens when therapy reflects the ways children naturally
learn and grow through play, relationships, individualized support, and family partnership.
Learning Through Everyday Experiences
The earliest years of development provide powerful opportunities for learning, growth, and connection. Young children learn and grow through everyday experiences, meaningful interactions, and play-based experiences that naturally encourage exploration, skill development, and engagement with the world around them. At Blossom Speech, we believe everyday moments can lead to lasting growth and meaningful progress with the right guidance. Therapy is thoughtfully tailored to each child's routines, unique daily experiences, and relationships so that play-based therapy and learning opportunities naturally grow from the activities and experiences that are already part of everyday life.
Fun and Stress-Free Learning
Comfort, connection, and genuinely interest create the foundation for meaningful learning experience. At Blossom Speech, we believe learning should be fun! We design engaging, low-stress learning experiences that include familiar environments, meaningful relationships, and activities that matter most to your child and family — sometimes even including siblings, grandparents, or the family pet. Therapy is thoughtfully designed around each child’s strengths, interests, and preferred activities to create positive experiences that encourage participation, build confidence, and support meaningful progress.
Whole-Child, Individualized Care
Understanding the whole child provides a more complete picture of learning and development. At Blossom Speech, we believe believe meaningful progress begins with truly understanding each child and family. We consider the whole child and the many factors that influence learning and development in order to better understand and support each child’s unique strengths and needs through individualized recommendations and strategies that fit naturally into everyday life. Therapy uses each child’s strengths, experiences, and existing skills as a foundation for supporting areas of need while promoting consistency through collaboration with families and other service providers.
Family-Centered Partnership
Children learn best through the consistent relationships and interactions that occur in their everyday lives, making caregivers an important part of supporting learning and skill development that continue beyond therapy sessions. At Blossom Speech Clinic, we recognize caregivers as experts on their child and value meaningful partnerships with families. Ongoing collaboration, coaching, and individualized recommendations and strategies are integrated into each therapy session to support families in navigating new information, meeting unexpected challenges, and building confidence in creating meaningful learning opportunities throughout everyday life.
Services
We offer comprehensive services to support learning, communication, and feeding
helping each child blossom and grow
Speech and Language 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.
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.
Infant & Toddler Feeding 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.
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.
“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.
Let's Connect
For families seeking compassionate care - or agencies in need of high level assessment and intervention services - Blossom Speech Clinic is here to provide expert care for young children and families.
Early identification and treatment of speech, language, and feeding development can make a meaningful difference in a child's long-term outcomes. If you have any concerns, we encourage your to reach out - timely support matters.