Apple Banana Speech of Kailua

Apple Banana Speech of Kailua is a speech therapist in Kailua, HI, located at 967 Kainui Dr. Yekaterina Vernikov, MA, CCC-SLP, is an ASHA certified speech-language pathologist licensed in Hawaii and Pennsylvania. She has over 15 years of experience working with children in home, school, community, and clinical settings, including five years on a diagnostic team with the Hawaii DOE.

The practice focuses on play-based, goal-oriented, flexible, child- and family-centered therapy, individualized to the child’s needs and temperament. The goal is to address language skills through a plan designed to increase confidence, address sensory needs, and expand play skills in order to build a child's capacity to learn independently in age-appropriate social and academic contexts.

Vernikov is experienced in the diagnosis and treatment of speech, language, and communication difficulties related to auditory processing, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and social communication disorder, cerebral palsy, childhood apraxia of speech, Down syndrome and other developmental delays, late talkers, receptive and/or expressive language delay and specific language impairment, speech-sound disorders, and selective mutism.

Areas of expertise include differential diagnostics, play based treatment, parent coaching, early intervention, language development in bilingual and multilingual children, and IEP support and educational transitions services.

Services include free initial consultations and screenings, comprehensive speech and language evaluations, individual therapy with home-based and community-based services, tele-therapy, and IEP support.

The practice is situated on Kainui Dr, about a tenth of a mile from Mokapu Boulevard and Oneawa Street. It is also located near Kalaheo Neighborhood Park and Ilipilo Street.

BizScoreAI gives the business a Discoverability score of 100 out of 100, which means AI crawlers can find every page of the website so AI assistants can recommend it. The Performance score is 91 out of 100. BizScoreAI reports that the business ranks number 2 of 4 Speech Therapist businesses that BizScoreAI has scored in Kailua.