COVID Update

Speech Jungle is committed to maintaining a safe and healthy therapy space for our clients and their families. As such, we are closely monitoring the ongoing COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak according to the guidelines and recommendations of Kaiser, the BHPN, and the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). We want to share with you the actions we are taking to help protect the children, their families and our therapists.

We’ve advised our employees to follow the public health authorities' guidance regarding hand washing and workplace cleaning, increasing the cleaning frequency of commonly used areas more often like therapy areas, tables, counters, door handles, and chairs. We continue to reinforce existing Speech Jungle policy encouraging employees who exhibit flu-like symptoms to stay home and consult with a medical professional as well. In addition, we are instituting the following changes to our therapy and center:

We have increased the amount of entrances our clients use. This will allow you to bring your child directly to your therapist’s room with limited interaction in the lobby. Each staff member has a sign in clipboard, allowing you to sign in directly with the therapist.

With regards to therapy, we are instituting the following changes:

- We are taking children's temperature before entering the clinic.  If over 100.4, we will not be able to provide services and will have to reschedule to ensure the health and safety of others. 

-Please have children leave personal items at home.
- We will be doing more lesson plan-based therapy like Art Projects, Worksheets, and other “disposable” activities to ensure each child does not have any cross contamination through the community therapy toys or materials.
- When using toys for therapy, we are cleaning toys after every session according to CDC guidelines and allowing them to air dry ensuring we reduce the risk of any contamination.  

We have had the carpet deep cleaned and sanitized with anti-microbial disinfectant that the EPA has registered to be approved against Covid -19.

In order to keep everyone safe, please keep your children home if they are experiencing any flu-like symptoms until they have been cleared by a medical doctor. This will be safest for our community. Once they are cleared, we can schedule a make-up session so they will not miss any therapy hours.

We appreciate the trust that you place in Speech Jungle. We will continue to closely monitor the situation and take actions necessary to help keep everyone safe while providing the therapy your children so richly deserve. Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns.

Sincerely,

Ms. Laura