Yes! Bright Kite Therapy is an approved Maryland Medicaid provider. At this time, we are not accepting private pay or any other insurances.

We serve children from toddlers through teens. Therapy goals and activities are always tailored to your child’s developmental stage — supporting progress from early communication to academic language and social confidence.

Bright Kite Therapy provides services in schools and childcare centers in the Pikesville, Owings Mills, and surrounding Baltimore areas. Availability may vary by location. If you’re unsure whether we service your child’s school or center, please reach out — we’ll be happy to let you know if we already service it or see if we can add your location to the areas we serve.

We provide services in schools, daycares, and other childcare settings. This allows your child to practice communication skills in their natural environment while collaborating with teachers and caregivers.

In school and daycare settings, parents usually do not attend sessions directly. However, parent involvement is very important! We share updates, simple at-home strategies, and provide materials so families can reinforce progress outside of therapy.

Yes. Maryland Medicaid requires a physician’s order before services can begin. Don’t worry — we’ll request the order directly from your child’s pediatrician, so you don’t need to handle that paperwork yourself.

Yes. Before therapy begins, we conduct a comprehensive speech-language evaluation to understand your child’s communication strengths and needs. This helps us design individualized goals and therapy activities.

Our therapy sessions are typically provided twice a week, with each session lasting about 20 minutes of individual therapy. However, session length and frequency are always adjusted to fit each child’s individual needs and school schedule.

The length of therapy varies for each child and depends on their goals, needs, and progress. Bright Kite Therapy follows a medical-based model, meaning services are provided only when there is data to support medical necessity and clear evidence of benefit. Services are discontinued when: A child’s communication skills reach an age-appropriate level, or Strategies and supports are in place that allow the child to succeed without direct therapy, or Progress plateaus and continued therapy is not considered medically necessary. Families are always informed and involved in discharge decisions. The goal is to help your child make measurable progress and build lasting communication skills — not to stay in therapy indefinitely.

At Bright Kite Therapy, we blend evidence-based resources with custom, engaging materials tailored to each child’s goals. Activities focus on meaningful, real-life vocabulary and situations, making therapy both practical and motivating. Even when practice requires repetition (like articulation drills), we choose words that matter to your child — the ones they use every day with family, teachers, and friends.

Yes — when a child’s reading or writing challenges stem from a language-based disorder, speech-language therapy can address the underlying skills that support literacy. These include phonological awareness (recognizing and manipulating speech sounds), word structure, vocabulary, and sentence or paragraph organization for written expression. Therapy focuses on strengthening the language foundations that support decoding, spelling, and comprehension — not on general reading instruction or tutoring. Services are provided only when testing shows that literacy challenges are related to a communication disorder, rather than to limited instruction, attention, or other academic factors.

It’s simple! Visit our Contact Page to reach out. We’ll talk with you about your child’s needs and begin the intake process, which includes collecting forms and requesting a physician’s order. After that, we’ll schedule an evaluation to better understand your child’s strengths and needs. Please note that therapy services depend on both our current availability and your child’s school or daycare location. In some cases, we may be full at a site or not servicing a particular location at this time. If that happens, we’ll let you know right away and, when possible, provide referrals to another SLP.