Services

Clear, confident speech for the child everyone asks to repeat themselves.

Difficulty producing sounds like /r/, /s/, /l/, or patterns of sound errors that make your child hard to understand. This is the most common reason Atlanta families call us, and one of the most reliably treatable.

For the child whose ideas are bigger than the words they can find.

Difficulty understanding language (receptive) or putting thoughts into words (expressive), often first surfaced by a teacher, a psychoeducational evaluation, or a parent who senses their child "gets it" but can't show it.

Specialist-level care for a diagnosis that demands it.

CAS is a motor-planning disorder: your child knows exactly what they want to say, but the signal between brain and mouth misfires. It requires specific, evidence-based motor-learning treatment, delivered frequently and precisely. It is one of the most frightening words a parent can bring home from a first evaluation; it is also treatable, and we treat it every week.

Calm, expert help, especially in the anxious early weeks.

Maybe your preschooler suddenly started repeating sounds last month, or your ten-year-old has been tensing through words for years. Either way, stuttering deserves prompt, specialized attention, and parents deserve straight answers.

When "wait and see" stops feeling right, we're the second call.

Some toddlers catch up on their own. Some don't, and the earliest movers get the strongest outcomes. If your two-year-old has few words, isn't combining them, or is hard to engage, an evaluation gives you a real answer.

For the tongue thrust your orthodontist flagged, and the mouth posture behind it.

Tongue thrust, low or forward tongue resting posture, mouth breathing, prolonged thumb or pacifier habits, and tongue-tie (before or after release) all shape how a child's speech, swallowing, and even orthodontic treatment turn out. Orofacial myofunctional therapy retrains those muscle patterns, and it's a formal specialty here.

Mealtimes should not be a battlefield.

Extreme picky eating, gagging, difficulty chewing or swallowing, or mealtime distress can have real physiological and sensory causes, and real solutions.

Two languages are never the problem. Neither are three.

Families at Atlanta's international and immersion schools ask us weekly: "Is our second language causing this?" The evidence is clear. Bilingualism does not cause speech or language disorders, and you should not drop a home language to treat one. That holds for trilingual homes too.

For the career where every word counts.

TALK has served Atlanta professionals since the beginning: accent modification for physicians, professors, actors, and executives whose spoken English is fluent but whose sound patterns, intonation, or syllable stress get in the way of being heard, and communication coaching for clients in consulting, banking, and other rooms where clarity is currency.

TALK-quality therapy, anywhere in the world.

Travel, relocation, or a packed Atlanta afternoon shouldn't interrupt momentum. Our clinicians deliver engaging, effective therapy online, including to international families who started with us in Atlanta.