Early Intervention Communication Coaching & In-Home Support
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🌟 Communication Coaching
🌟 Guided Play Support
✅ North County San Diego, CA
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Looking for home support while waiting for services to begin?
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Have Early Start services ended (age 3) and in need to continued in home support?
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In need of early learning, routine and transitional 1:1 home support to best prepare for preschool?
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Feel a need for additional carry-over help between therapy sessions?
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Need tips and tools to create better focus and motivate more communication in the playroom and home setting?
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More early communication modeling for your late talking child (verbal, partial or non verbal at the moment)?
Here to Help!I’m Steffani Smith, founder of Cornerstone FUNdamentals, an Early Educator and In-Home Communication & Developmental Support Provider with 12 years of experience supporting young children and their families.
Learning Through Everyday Moments
I utilize NET (Natural Environment Teaching) and DIR/Floortime (Developmental, Individual-differences, Relationship-based) guided-play techniques to help children learn through their interests, relationships, routines, and everyday environments.
Identifying opportunities already happening throughout the day—play items, meals, outdoor play, transitions, getting dressed, books, movement, and family interactions— enables me to motivate and guide meaningful opportunities for communication and development.
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Child-Led & Connection-Based
Activities are adapted to each child’s interests, communication style, developmental level, regulation needs, and current goals. Following the child’s interests allows us to naturally create more opportunities for engagement, communication, confidence, connection, and learning.
Bringing Goals Into the Home
When a child is already receiving Speech (SLP), Occupational Therapy (OT), school w/ or w/o an aid, or other developmental services, I can help families practice and carry over appropriate provider-recommended goals during everyday home routines, play and to help create greater consistency between therapy, school, and home.
Supporting the Whole Family
In-home support isn’t only about working with the child. I help parents and caregivers recognize everyday opportunities to model communication, identify sensory and regulation needs and build skills, so strategies can continue naturally between visits.
Siblings can also be incorporated into play when appropriate, creating real-life opportunities for communication, turn-taking, social interaction, and shared play practice.
The goal is simple: to help children build meaningful skills and ways to communicate through the people in their lives, play time and activities, and everyday moments that already surround them.
Services are individualized to your child’s goals and can be used while waiting for therapy to begin or alongside speech, occupational, behavioral, and early intervention services.
Recommended Schedule
• 1.5–3 hour sessions
• 1-3 sessions per week
This ensures the best consistency and progress
Hourly rates are based on individual support needs, with discounted bundle options for multiple weekly sessions.
Many families may be able to submit services for HSA/FSA reimbursement with a physician’s Letter of Medical Necessity. Templates and supporting documentation are available upon request.
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30 minute consultation available
Lead with FUN, CONNECT with communication and “Don’t forget to PLAY!”
