I cannot say enough wonderful things about my experience with the Center for Speech and my daughter’s speech therapist, Ms. Anna. When we came to the Center, my daughter was just over 2 years old with no words and very few sounds (basically none). We received the most wonderful, personalized care for our daughter and incredibly simple, effective strategies to implement with her on a daily basis. People had told me my daughter would just one day start talking, but Ms. Anna assured me that with work on all sides she would but work would be required. As a parent, that was a hard thing to hear, but let me tell you it worked. Ms. Anna poured in our daughter and worked to keep speech interesting and challenging. She was a constant encourager to me and spent time listening to my concerns and struggles and always gave the best advice. She was our village in teaching our daughter to talk. At the year evaluation, it was filled with happy tears because of the progress my daughter made from intense hard work on all sides. Speech isn’t simple and it does take time, but the Center for Speech and Ms. Anna provided us and our daughter with the strategies, exercises and tools we needed to bring my daughter to age level with her speech. I cannot recommend Ms. Anna enough. She is an incredible woman - both inside and out - and she helped our daughter talk and sing and provided such encouragement for me when I felt like I was failing my child. If you need a positive, loving, encouraging, hardworking community of folks to help with speech, the Center of Speech is for you
Bess Desta