Speech-Language Services

By seeking intervention and familiarizing yourself with strategies and tools that are individually tailored to your child, you are equipping your child for mental, physical and emotional health and wellness.

Suzanne Varona, M.s. CCC-SLP

Maybe they’re just quiet, they’re still really young. Let’s just wait and see. I cannot tell you how many times I have met parents and/or caregivers who have stated these words that were spoken to them. This may be true for some children, but the early years are so important for dynamic development and growth. Early intervention services can change the trajectory of a child’s developmental path and ultimately improve not only the overall growth outcome for children but also for families and communities. The earlier the intervention, the better. The neuro-connectivity in a child’s brain is more palpable and adaptable during the first three years of life. These neural circuits are the key to laying a founding for learning, behavior, and health. By seeking intervention and familiarizing yourself with strategies and tools that are individually tailored to your child, you are equipping your child for mental, physical and emotional health and wellness.

At Redefined Kidz, LLC., we are committed to helping children holistically with cultivating their self-empowerment skills, including strengthening their total communication skills. We truly believe that every child has a voice and deserves a chance to use it. We understand the diverse needs that each child and family has and offer to provide not only individualized service delivery, but also a strong collaboration as a team to help generalize the efficiency of communication growth.

We offer speech-language therapy services by certified and highly-qualified Speech-Language Pathologists to provide evidence-based strategies that support your child’s unique speech and language needs. We contract with school districts, provide early language learner classes and workshops, provide group early language learner clubs as well as offer individualized services through both consultation as well as within homes and inclusive community locations. Individualized service delivery is tailed towards helping you generalize goals and objectives into your child’s nature environment through providing supplemental early intervention services as well as collaboration services to generalize goals your child may be working on within an academic environment.

Here at Redefined Kidz, LLC., we don’t tailor towards direct therapy but collaborative therapy and a partner approach to intervention. With us you will learn how to use your daily routines to create lasting change and progress. Together, we will help your child learn, gain confidence, and develop speech and language skills to assist your child mentally, physically and emotionally throughout life.

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    Suzanne (Columbia) Varona, MS CCC-SLP is a pediatric Speech-Language Pathologist that is highly skilled, ASHA-certified, and NJ licensed with nearly two decades of experience working with children in the outpatient, school, community and in-home environments. She is a certified HANAN 'Learning Language and Loving It' professional and is formally trained in PROMPT, DIRfloortime, and PECs. She is a Baby Signs, Inc. and Speech Buddies provider. She continues to expand her area of expertise, advocating for the most innovative therapeutic strategies and resources, in the area of apraxia of speech, early speech and language growth and development and Autism Spectrum Disorders. Suzanne is also an advocate for mental health and wellness, becoming an empowerment specialist and currently obtaining her 200-hour digital wellness, SEL and yoga teacher certification in Breathe for Change.

    Suzanne was raised in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, obtaining an undergraduate degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders with a minor in Linguistics and Teaching English as an International Language from Geneva College. She earned her Masters of Speech and Language Pathology from Clarion University in Pennsylvania. Soon after graduating with her Master's degree, she relocated to northern New Jersey and began working in a variety of treatment locations. After immersing herself into school district placements, she soon discovered her passion to advocate for early speech and language development while training parents/caregivers when working in homes and inclusive community locations through NJ's Early Intervention System. After relocated to southern NJ several years ago, her passion and dedication to advocate for early intervention support for children and their families/caregivers only blossomed until a need for initiating Redefined Kidz, LLC was created.

    Suzanne's energy, passion and commitment to helping children is demonstrated in her dynamic, fun approach and in the sincere, respectful relationships she cultivates with parents/caregivers. She focuses on functional communication skills while holistically working with parents/caregivers to receive support training necessary to use the strategies during existing activities at home, in the car, and on the go. She focuses not only on building early receptive and expressive language and communication skills but on building mental, physical and emotional wellness to empower each child to be equipped with specific tools and skills to tackle challenges that will be faced in life. It is with this passion that she has advocated to spark a movement for all children to enhance their health and overall well-being through mental, physical, and emotional development and growth.