Therapy Clubhouse provides in-home and telehealth pediatric speech therapy to families in Studio City, for children from birth to 18. A licensed speech-language pathologist comes to your home, and the first 15-minute consultation is free. As of October 2026, there is no waiting list here for in-home or telehealth therapy.
Parents may not realize that conversation skills are part of speech and language.
The child has an enormous vocabulary. They can lecture you for twenty minutes about the thing they love. Adults describe them as articulate, precocious, maybe a bit intense. And yet friendships are hard, group work goes badly, and conversations end without either person quite knowing why.
What is difficult here is not words. It is the machinery underneath a conversation: reading whether the other person is still interested, repairing a misunderstanding, taking a turn and then giving it back, adjusting how you speak depending on who is listening, understanding that a raised eyebrow changed the meaning of the sentence.
Social communication is part of speech-language pathology. A child's fluent vocabulary can make a difficulty there easy to miss.
Our team can guide you through what to expect and how to get started.
The way middle school is set up can make social communication challenges easier to see.
In elementary school, one teacher can hold the whole picture of your child. Walter Reed Middle School had over fifteen hundred students in the 2025-26 school year. Each teacher may see your child for one period a day, and the social world can shift.
In a small, familiar, adult-scaffolded elementary, a child with weak conversational skills can be carried by a stable friendship group and a teacher who quietly manages the seating. Remove both at once and the difficulty can become visible.
If you have wondered about your child's conversation skills, you are welcome to talk with us about support before your child starts middle school.
A free 15-minute call in which you describe what you are seeing and we tell you honestly whether an evaluation is warranted. The answer may be that it is not.
Then, if it is, an evaluation in your home within 3 business days of the call. It takes about 60 to 90 minutes. You get a written report you can keep, share with your pediatrician, or take to a school meeting.
If therapy is recommended, a therapy plan comes with the report.
The pediatric speech evaluation in Studio City has its own page.
We work where the skills are used. For conversational and social communication work in particular, that matters, because the skills have to hold up with real people in real situations.
Telehealth can suit school-age articulation and fluency work, and it can keep therapy going in a week that would otherwise be canceled. Studio City is in our home-visit area.
If your child is under three, you can contact the regional center that serves your address to ask about Early Start. Eligibility can rest on a 25% delay in one or more areas of development, a combination of biomedical risk factors, or an established risk condition.
We do not provide applied behavior analysis, behavioral therapy or counseling, music therapy, or nutrition services, and we do not diagnose autism, ADHD or any other condition. We describe what we observe, put it in writing, and refer onward where that is right.
Studio City speech clients work with Nita Anavim, M.S., CCC-SLP, a licensed speech-language pathologist holding the Certificate of Clinical Competence from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
It can be. Social communication sits squarely within speech-language pathology. A child described as "quirky" may be finding conversation hard, and a strong vocabulary can hide that difficulty.
No. We work on the underlying skills of conversation, such as reading the listener, repairing a misunderstanding, and taking turns.
No.
The first 15-minute consultation is free. Call (805) 702-3427 or use the contact form.
See also pediatric occupational therapy in Studio City and the Studio City hub.
Start with a free 15 minute consultation. No commitment, just clarity on whether your child would benefit and what the next step looks like.
Speech therapy and occupational therapy for children ages 0 to 18.
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The information on this website is provided for general educational purposes and is not medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. It does not replace an evaluation by a licensed speech-language pathologist, occupational therapist, or physician. If you have concerns about your child’s development, please contact us or speak with your pediatrician.
Some children need help learning to talk. Others need help with handwriting, coordination, or coping with noise and textures. Many need both. Therapy Clubhouse is led by Nita Anavim, M.S., CCC-SLP, and Rachel Yashouafar, MA, OTR/L, so a family who needs speech and occupational therapy can arrange both through one practice instead of managing two providers, two intake processes and two schedules.
The first step is a free 15-minute consultation with a licensed therapist. Call (805) 702-3427 or send a message.
Tell us what you are noticing about your child. A licensed therapist reads every message, not an assistant, and replies within one business day. The consultation is free, lasts about 15 minutes, and carries no obligation. There is no waiting list. If you would rather talk now, call (805) 702-3427.
