Laguna Beach Local News
By Barbara McMurray,
“My kid is reverting to a caveman!”
That was one of the plaintive cries that Lynn Epstein of Laguna Beach Language & Speech Clinic heard from a frustrated parent.
The pandemic has had a huge, hurtful impact on families, especially those with young children who need help with communication skills including language development, processing verbal information, and executive function skills. Parents were distraught at their inability to access Epstein’s in-person therapy, an eagerly anticipated outing for many children.
Epstein works closely with parents to boost children’s language skills. She provides education classes for parents, teachers, and colleagues. Before COVID-19, she could typically be found playing and chatting animatedly on the floor at eye level with the toddlers and grade-schoolers she works with.